bull-nosed
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Elsewhere, a bull-nosed hydraulic cutter is rail-cutting as if it enjoyed the fun.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
Me wild, a rat hole in me lung, but in me mauley, too, A bull-nosed brick with whiskers where no whiskers ever grew.
From 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Edward Dyson
The bull-nosed Zeppelin soared and the lighter machine followed, light as a swallow.
From Shelled by an Unseen Foe by James Fiske
In the long bony head just showing above water, the bull-nosed snout, the stealthy glide, he recognised the most hideous and repulsive of reptiles, an alligator, and not a small one, either.
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Bertram Mitford
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