nose
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And when they catch a cold and blow their nose in a tissue it "is black", added her mother, Mirela Kabashi, a police officer in Elbasan.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
I broke my nose twice—once when a basketball hit it and later after I collapsed following a long run in the heat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The pilot, his head wrapped in bandages, and with a breathing tube in his nose, said the path to recovery was long.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
His rise to becoming an arena-level act around the world happened seemingly under America’s nose, despite his roots coming up at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood and pounding the L.A. comedy circuit for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
She slides a basket of fries under Mom’s nose.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
They then positioned the cup about 30 cm from their noses and left it there overnight.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
If there were any time to turn our noses up in defiance and refuse to engage with anything less than quality, it’s now.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Crucially, Chelsea nipped in at the last minute to sign Willian from under the noses of Spurs, who might argue that was only because of the secret payments.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The staff’s “rebellion,” Ms. Rogoyska tells us, lay “not in poisoning the Germans’ soup but in keeping something hidden from their masters, right under their noses: the finest wine, and perhaps a few men, too.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The scratch of tiny claws and nudge of small, cold noses.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
All I know is that when Pebble Beach’s traffic control staff forced me to execute a tricky U-turn on a narrow road—at night, in front of witnesses—the Multistrada nosed around beautifully.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The champions nosed ahead through a Lewandowski penalty on 10 minutes after Marcos Alonso handled Fermin Lopez's shot, but Celta equalised a minute later.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025
Tracking data show that the plane climbed to 75 feet above the runway, veered right and then nosed into a sudden, steep dive seconds after its 8:08 p.m. takeoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
Norris had previously nosed slightly ahead on the straight approaching the corner.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
The next time he nosed at the steer and then the two of them trotted over to the other bull.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
The entire Crace clan is resisting Susan’s nosing about, imperiling the brand and jeopardizing the Netflix deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
It has returned 15.8% a year over the past decade, nosing out the benchmark index, which has returned 15.6%, through May 8.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
It’s funny, then, that the people nosing their way past the lines Allen draws and into her personal life are the same ones hoping for Harbour and Allen to be symbols of morality.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025
A night vision camera shows a bear nosing around her camp site.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023
In the distance, a grip of seals were scattered around the wooden crates, barking every once in a while and nosing each other in the stomach.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
