He was nosing alongshore and I had a perfect chance; but a kingfisher scared him.
No, Archie; ladies of quality like our Ruth and Isabel must be protected from vulgar publicity, and we don't want any sheriffs or newspaper reporters nosing around.
But how about this fellow from Calderville who's nosing round?
Close to the big iron gate below Alwa's eyrie there were some of Jaimihr's cavalry nosing about among the trampled gardens for the dead and wounded they had left there earlier in the afternoon.
They were hungrily nosing fresh piles of hay, and scarcely looked up when Coaley trotted eagerly up to join them.
With the glasses he could see the sweat-roughened hide ripple convulsively to dislodge the pestering insects, could see the flaring nostrils as the horse blew out the dust gathered from his hungry nosing amongst the coarse grass and weeds.
A pup that's squirming and wriggling and nosing around the seat of the trouble whenever one of his little friends gets busy, is kicked out into the cold, sad night in the end.
Caught a Northerner nosing round his barn one day, and inside of ten minutes the fellow was driving off behind what Bill described as "the peartest piece of ginger and cayenne in Pike County.
It's the Copper Pool that owns us, and nosing round in our quiet little way we got on to the Barker-Whitehall affair and from that followed the scent to that legacy of yours.
Did you think I was nosing round for an unlocked door or an open safe?
And I didn't know but what the reporters, nosing round for anything the way they do, mightn't have heard it.
By the time that the submarine reached the mouth of the little harbor she was traveling at eighteen miles an hour, her bow nosing into the waves and throwing up a fine spray, some of which reached the platform, deck.
How would you feel about being aboard a battleship in wartime, and suspecting that a boat like this was nosing down in the water after you?
This fight ended by the writhing python getting too close to the boa-constrictor, who happened to be nosing his way across the deck amidships.
He gained the space abaft the house near the wheel and stood still, lashing his tail and nosing the air as though he smelled us up aloft.
Not finding an antagonist worthy of his horn, the rhino begannosing the two mutual-minded snakes.
Down on deck were those murderous wild beasts, nosing round, and only waiting for the chance of getting together.
He was again nosing me around the deck, glaring murder at me and talking to himself.
Roper had many ways of amusing himself when travelling through bush, but one of his greatest delights was nosing out hidden black fellows.
He grew thin and slab-sided under the fret of it before he succeeded, by much nosing in gravel and sand, in wearing away the cartilage and rubbing his jaw clear of the encumbrance.
But when the man was well past, there came a new scent upon the air, a scent quite unknown to him; and then a small black and white cur trotted into view, nosing along the roadside in quest of chipmunks.
I'll swear there's some onenosing around the camp," he said.
He drew back, and saw Gray Wolf cautiously nosing about a long and peculiarly shaped hummock in the snow.
And always Kazan was a leap ahead, with Gray Wolf nosing his shoulder.
I've been nosing round his place, getting information from his servants, and I've learned a lot about him.
Some of the old battered boats of the first landing were still nosing the shore, and at a safe distance was a dead mule.
As he glanced aside from his nosing in the samphire tufts, he caught sight of a broad black splotch of shadow sweeping up the baked surface of the flat at terrific speed.
Then, thinking better of it, she turned away and fell to nosing a mouse trail.
A big sucker with a snout that overhung, and opened and shut greedily, came nosing the mud close up under his face.
Warily the ruddy-brown body behind the pointed head slipped forth from the tunnel, and darted to the nearest tuft, where it began nosing sharply and snapping up small game.
Still, I didn't say a word--just stood and looked at him while he speeded up the way the boys will when they think the old man isnosing around to see whose salary he can raise next.
But Jim hadn't been in the office plugging away at the letters for a month before he had the writer's cramp, and begannosing around again.
That fellow Garrick is just as likely as not to be nosing around up there.
So, they expect me around there, nosing about Warrington's apartment.
The dog was circling out from the tree, with wild, uncertain movements, nosing everywhere.
I bet you he was nosing around up there, and smelled our grub," suggested X-Ray, a sudden gleam of light dawning upon him.
Now, I found this same when I was nosing around," he explained.
We slip past her and on past the Battery too; and are nosing up the North River.
We were nosing northward through a dimpled duckpond of a sea, with the Welsh coast on one side and Ireland just over the way.
By this afternoon, however, I imagine we'll be nosing into the blue.
If it was August I'd say we were nosinginto a typhoon.
I saw the attacking formation above us to our right, banking to the left, nosing down to attack us broadside.
I noticed that I had allowed the ship to nose up out of the dive ever so slightly during that wrestling match, and I spent the rest of the dive nosing it ever so slightly back in.
The ship was nosingsteeper and steeper into the dive.
More than once we were almost out-distanced, three times we were caught in a block of traffic, so that my taxi's bonnet was nosing the limousine's tank.
Twenty minutes later we were all three--four with Nobby--on the front seat of the Rolls, which was nosing its way gingerly out of the town.
Clay removed the dishes and sat down by his side, but just then Teddy came nosing out of the cabin and invited the boy to box with him.
What are you doing here—nosing in those drawers?
Soon he began nosing at the blankets where the boys had lain.
I yapped at him, and after looking at me with his big ears cocked and the round muzzle of his dirty head held up, the yellow critter turned and went nosing back.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nosing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
