nose into
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“We’ve made a den under here,” he says, and swings his nose into the shadows.
From Literature
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Lady Constance did, and blew her nose into it noisily, talking all the while.
From Literature
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But instead of navigating society balls and dowries, Pickett's modern Emma is poking her nose into her friends' online dating profiles, having returned home after failing her exams at Oxford University.
From BBC
The police disguise thing—in my copy, I remember almost bumping my nose into that detail on my first or second draft.
From Slate
The 3-year-old British Labrador — shiny black, a bit small for her breed — scurries onto the burn site, pushing her nose into piles of ash, moving from one spot to another, wagging her tail the whole time.
From Los Angeles Times
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