Example sentences for: noses

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

  • The answer is that book editors, and especially some of those at St. Martin's, are very skilled at holding their noses.

  • How uninspired is the surgical selfishness of leaner noses and plumper bosoms.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • When he finally succeeded, after a prolonged siege and heavy losses, he punished the local population by cutting off the noses and lips of all men — except those who played wind instruments.


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