How to Use nose out in a Sentence

nose out

verb
  • If the team buys into the vision, then no one has their nose out of joint.
    James Mayo, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2021
  • My heartfelt advice to you is to keep your nose out of her cleavage.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Miami noses out Scottsdale, Arizona, as the U.S. city with the best spa locations, a new study finds.
    Gary Stoller, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • No other humans in sight — just mountains and pine trees and the occasional seal poking its nose out of the water.
    A.j. Jacobs, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • So five years ago, Ms. Tomaszewska made a fake nose out of modeling clay, donned fake, gold teeth, and covered her face with garish makeup.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Boy, that Vladimir Putin just can’t keep his nose out of American presidential elections.
    Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Tips include finding the sweet spot on the board where the pup should stand, positioning the board properly to move out to the waves and controlling the board with the nose out and perhaps offering a doggie treat.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Once trained up, canines can nose out the disease within weeks of infection, trouncing all other available detection methods in both timing and accuracy, the researchers report today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2020

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