Example sentences for: noses

How can you use “noses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In their way--which may be entirely peaceful and law-abiding--they are showing their solidarity with those who thumb their noses at the mores of bourgeois society.

  • Pundits debated who was more damaged by the new information: Congressional Republicans who cried "cover-up" while the information was under their noses; or the attorney general, who was unaware of her own department's reports.

  • Although one may disagree with the ham-fisted way in which smokers were evicted from restaurants, people like me with sensitive noses appreciate the result.

  • Whether Greta Garbo actually ever said, I want to be alone (she did), is of little consequence in the larger scheme of things; but the world consists of many parts, including many smaller--even infinitesimal--things, and we must not turn our noses up at the exact wording of Neil Armstrong's moon quotation: at least it was in English, and one need not try to explain that in Et tu, Brute , the last word is not the English word brute but the vocative case of Latin Brutus and then go off into the paroxysmal grammar of Latin to explain what a vocative is.

  • Seems as reasonable a resume as being a quasi-Texas rich kid with $56 million to burn on being Big Oil's Puppet President, and indeed, Jesse's utterances on drug and prostitution decriminalization, on the need for unions, and the oft-quoted snap about organized religion being a crutch for the weak-minded and an excuse to stick their noses in other people's business, are the kind of discussion I haven't heard from a politician since Abbie Hoffman took it on the lam.


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