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Example sentences for "noses"

Lexicographically close words:
nosebleed; nosed; nosegay; nosegays; noseless; noshun; nosing; nosological; nosology; nosotros
  1. The sheriff did not answer, but followed the dogs that had trotted away with their noses to the ground.

  2. I don't care if they do say mean things, and make noses at me.

  3. When Clematis came near the fence, they ran and put their fore feet up, and stuck their noses out.

  4. Nevertheless, to a king, all their noses were aquiline.

  5. It was to the frequent practice of this ceremony, that most intelligent observers imputed the flattened noses of the elderly chiefs of the island; who, nevertheless, much gloried therein.

  6. Their noses and lips are thick, and their mouths large.

  7. Of the latter, he says, their visages are large and complexions rather yellow; their noses broad, and generally compressed, and their bodies are of a thickness greatly resembling that of a Hollander.

  8. In a little island fronting that of Java, the women are tawny, their eyes small, their mouths large, their noses flat, and their hair long and black.

  9. They are of a middling stature, their visage long, their eyes black, their noses of a moderate size, their lips thin, and their teeth are blackened.

  10. The mothers crush the noses of their children, presently after they are born; they all go absolutely naked, and paint their bodies of different colours.

  11. In general their hair is frizly, their noses thick, their eyes are large, and their colour like that of the Indians.

  12. Their complexion is of the colour of copper; their faces are flat, large, and square; their noses compressed, and their eyes are little.

  13. We have already pointed out the way in which jealous Fiji women cut off the noses of their rivals.

  14. The Australians laugh at our long noses and the natives of Cochin-China at our white teeth and red cheeks.

  15. Tascodrugitæ and the Pattalorhinchitæ who during prayers placed their fingers upon their noses or in their mouths, &c.

  16. Good fellows everywhere seek to bring their noses to the genial hue that follows the commingling of the red and blue.

  17. By and by it got around that he was smiting the rock in the wilderness; and all along Broadway things with cold noses and hot gullets fell in on our trail.

  18. Consequently, there are no sharp noses among the full-blooded Indians.

  19. They punished the crime more by the laws of offended and irritated fury than by those of reason, with hideous and indeed cruel demonstrations of contempt, by cutting off the noses and ears of the ambassador and his men.

  20. Some ponies, shyly curious of Barbara and her horse, stole up, and stood at a safe distance, with their noses dubiously stretched out, swishing their lean tails.

  21. We all equally well know that the man, even the politician or the statesman, who had suggested a solution of that problem by a count of noses would have been effaced with ridicule.

  22. The count of noses being complete, the mind of the composite Democrat is held to be made up.

  23. It would be the same as respects literature, science and art, were their representatives chosen and results reached through a count of noses localized, with selection severely confined to home talent.

  24. I should like to see some o' them fellows as make the almanecks looking as far before their noses as I've got to do every year as comes.

  25. The hand of nature has flattened the noses of the negroes, covered their heads with shaggy wool, and tinged their skin with inherent and indelible blackness.

  26. Short legs to bring 'em near the grass, and long noses to poke under the rocks and get it.

  27. Ain't it funny the way these Johns stick their noses to the ground and start on the trail of 'the soldiers, villagers, etc.

  28. All they could do was to look at the empty bottles, hold their noses and drink mineral water.

  29. The involuntary contraction of the pyramidal caused the basal part of their noses to be transversely and deeply wrinkled.

  30. We want as many noses as we can get, and the boys behind them must be true blue.

  31. How many noses do you want, and what do you want them for?

  32. Think of a real scrap going on under our very noses and we not seeing it!

  33. Began to think I'd have to rub your noses in it.

  34. Then we followed our noses up wind over a little rise and there in the middle of a clump of spruce was the cabin, pretty near buried in snow.

  35. Are we to suppose that round heads can only beget round heads, but that snub noses can produce the hooked variety as a mere result of imagination?

  36. According to him, it would appear that noses are more plastic in this regard than skulls.

  37. Are we to suppose that a pair of snub-nosed converts to Judaism would produce offspring with the characteristic Jewish nose because the lady convert had her imagination influenced by the hook-noses surrounding her?

  38. They thrust their noses into it eagerly, gave an inquiring sniff, and turned away in scorn.

  39. Out from a greening poplar thicket burst the dogs, running with noses to the ground.

  40. The two foxes touched noses sympathetically, then fell to licking each other's wounds.

  41. As she stood there with bared fangs and green-glinting, narrowed gaze, a little group of pointed noses and inquiring ears and keen, mischievous, innocently shrewd eyes appeared in the doorway of the den behind her.

  42. When the weather had cleared and they poked their sharp noses out to investigate, it was after sunrise, and their world had undergone a miraculous transformation.

  43. The fox family, however, well away from the densest and maddest of the crowd, sank their bodies quite under water, just lifting their noses every other second to breathe.

  44. It was curious, in the midst of their distress, to observe them thrusting their noses into the mire, in quest of something to eat.

  45. At the first two or three steps which Jason made, the four fiery streams appeared to gush out somewhat more plentifully; for the two brazen bulls had heard his foot tramp, and were lifting up their hot noses to snuff the air.

  46. They were every one white, with pretty pink noses and very curly tails.

  47. Then all the pigs were so frightened that their noses turned white.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "noses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.