Example sentences for: noses

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

  • It was part of a total package that included not only the golden shiksas but their brothers ("engaging, good-natured, confident, clean, swift, and powerful halfbacks"), their fathers ("men with white hair and deep voices"), their mothers who never whined or hectored, their curtained, fireplaced houses, their small noses, their lack of constant nagging worry--in short, the normalcy and confidence that go along with belonging, with being on the inside.

  • 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.

  • Humility is a desirable attribute of those who deal with language, and it ill behooves purists and precisions to turn their noses up at vulgarians and others who fail to preserve the language in its supposedly pristine condition.

  • This may come as a surprise to many people, though not to those who make their living by their noses, such as oenologists, perfumers, and food scientists.

  • 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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