Example sentences for: noses

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

  • Penises and noses, which, incidentally, scans beautifully when substituted for the refrain in "Lollipops and Roses," the 1962 Grammy-winning Jack Jones hit written by Tony Velona.

  • 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.

  • The hectic operations of the fishing industry used to take place here right under the noses of vacationers, with a frenetic “bucket-brigade” hauling wicker baskets of fresh fish up from the boat holds to ice trays and waiting trucks, right next to dockside dining tables.

  • 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.

  • And why do Inuit kiss by rubbing noses rather than with their lips?


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