nose in
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Also, nose into.
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Advance cautiously, front end first, as in We nosed the boat into her berth , or The car nosed in very slowly . [Mid-1900s]
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Pry, snoop, as in He was nosing into our finances again . [First half of 1900s] Also see nose about ; poke one's nose into .
Example Sentences
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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
Jefferson still had his nose in his books—his dome is based on Palladio’s reconstruction of the Roman temple of Vesta—but he transformed his source material, much as Shakespeare did, to serve his own purposes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
No doubt the 22-year-old will be working on the marginal gains he has identified to help keep his nose in front of his rival.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
A whiff of lemongrass and wet soil tickle the nose in Palli Fleischer Lyberth's vertical farm in Sisimiut, the second-largest town in the Danish autonomous territory.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
Shaped by fairy tales, she thought, which made it better than every straight nose in the world.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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