Example Sentences

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Of course, I was nosily waiting to find out what happened in Sexton’s own marriage.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2018

As Duncan nosily watches the residents of Lichfield House come and go, he displays a talent for totally misunderstanding them all.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2011

Mr. Bodler was a fattish man with faded blond hair who was always nosily cheerful at children.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

For one thing, the ship was running into bad weather again, and complained nosily of the buffeting her stout frame was receiving.

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis

How different was all this from the nosily fierce and clumsily absurd manner of labor-life in Baltimore and St. Michael's!

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick