Example Sentences

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Now retirees were nosing around the North Carolina mountains again, and his father was building again.

From New York Times • May 25, 2016

Be prepared for her to flip out over the fact that you were nosing about in her bedroom, and that you again seem to be lording your high-prestige parchment over her.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2014

By the time he was 16, Rocky was a star for the semipro Mohawks playing out of Crotona Park, and major-league scouts were nosing about.

From Time Magazine Archive

While Paramount's actors did their impersonations of caporegimes and button men in supposedly archaic rites of murder, the bright black Cadillacs were nosing up to the curb outside Guide's funeral home in Brooklyn.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two small skiffs and a Coast Guard inflatable were nosing around the Coral Queen.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen