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Example sentences for "her nose"

  • While ventilating her grievances, her eyes got moist, her nose watered, and she began to sob.

  • Ch'ing Wen, at his advice, promptly dug out a little with her nail, and applied it to her nose.

  • Still she felt feverish, her head sore, her nose stopped, her voice hoarse.

  • For a moment she peered at Honora over the glasses lightly poised on the uncertain rim of her nose.

  • Her nose turned up, her hair Honora described as a negative colour, and she wore it in defiance of all prevailing modes.

  • Her nose was of patrician straightness, and the curves of her mouth came from generations of proud ancestors.

  • She tore away some of the rice paper and lifted the tobacco to her nose, and made a little grimace.

  • Her nose is Grecian; her lips a trifle thin.

  • Her nose is small and clever, her mouth very merry, her skin exquisite, though devoid of the blue veins that usually go with so delicate a white, and her hair is a bright, rich gold.

  • Molly, when the little mound is half burned down, putting her dainty handkerchief up to her nose.

  • So Polly hopped out from her seat behind the table, and amid peals of laughter she minced up and down like a tiny, queer little man, until she nearly tumbled over on her nose.

  • Take me, Polly,” implored Phronsie, leaning out of the big chair at the imminent danger of falling on her nose, and two tears raced over her round cheeks.

  • The day the Coupeaus got married she turned up her nose at her.

  • She hid her hands under her apron, her nose elevated in the air.

  • Her curly hair was almost blond, her nose perfect; and her mouth, small and sweet like her mother's, was flanked by charming dimples.

  • And putting back her glasses on the tip of her nose, she reflected: "We shall see if besides not keeping the holy feast days, she has not honored her father and her mother.

  • The good aunt drew her chair up to the light, settled her glasses on the tip of her nose, and opened a little book.

  • Mrs. Fazakerly, for purposes of humorous observation, used a pince-nez, which invariably leaped from the bridge of her nose in her subsequent excitement.

  • Her nose, small and straight, was a shade too broadly rounded at the tip, but that defect gave a sort of softness to her splendor.

  • She looked at him, and her pince-nez balanced itself on the bridge of her nose, then leapt its suicidal leap.

  • As a turn in the drive brought them within sight of Coton Manor, Mrs. Fazakerly balanced her pince-nez on the bridge of her nose.

  • No one could tell what she meant by a nut in her nose.

  • All the morning, however, she kept repeating, over and over again, that she had a nut in her nose.

  • The little girl whom I kept near me, on my waking, pointed to her nose, and said, "I have a nut here.

  • There was a pallor about her lips and about her nose, while her ears were almost transparent, and her neck was so small that Jerrie felt she could have clasped it with one hand.

  • Her nose is over the registers half the time in winter to see if any gas is escaping from the furnace.

  • Oh, it smells awful there sometimes when it is hot,' Jerry replied with an upward turn to her nose.

  • Her nose is adorable, if slightly tilted; her mouth is a red, red rose, sad but sweet, and full of purpose.

  • Stooping over the bed, therefore, she carefully adjusts her glasses upon her nose, and proceeds to examine with much minuteness the earth beneath her.

  • You have only to fix your eyes steadily on the tip of her nose, and there you are!

  • She sat down beside him at the table, and, unpinning the pale honeysuckle, put it to her nose.

  • Taking a sprig of jessamine and holding it to her nose, she went up to that picture.

  • That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.

  • Illustration: Amy capped the climax by putting a clothes-pin on her nose] Sunshine and laughter were good omens for a pleasure party, and soon a lively bustle began in both houses.

  • The youngest one was old enough to be married too, but she was very particular, and turned up her nose at all the young princes who had sought her hand.

  • But one little feather they kept out, and told the young man that if the ogress missed it he was to thrust it up her nose.

  • She opened her eyes, and saw the doctor busy with her nose.

  • Her face was sprinkled with water, and strong scents were held to her nose, till it seemed they were going to send her out of the world by the very means apparently employed to bring her to life again.

  • Her forehead bowed out and overhung her nose, which endeavoured to stretch out to some decent length, but was unfortunately foiled by the want of a bridge.

  • The thought of giving puddings to Anne-Marie made her hurriedly take her handkerchief from her pocket and blow her nose.

  • When he saw her walking forlornly away with her hand to her nose, and her two plaits dangling despondently behind, he felt sorry, and called her back.

  • Edith ran to the shrubbery, and put her hand to her nose.

  • As they bent over the unconscious girl, bathing her temples and holding the salts to her nose, a few hurried sentences were exchanged.

  • Peggy did the same, and fell on her nose with a resounding crash.

  • Again the line dropped forward with one motion; and again our poor Peggy fell on her nose.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her nose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her again; her brother; her carriage; her companions; her dark; her eye; her friend; her home; her long; her love; her lover; her mistress; her nature; her neck; her nephew; her pocket; her that; her thoughts; her turn; her whole; here give; here intended; here used; hereafter shall; hereby certify; hereby know