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Example sentences for "nostrils"

Lexicographically close words:
nostram; nostras; nostre; nostri; nostril; nostris; nostro; nostrorum; nostros; nostrum
  1. Her nostrils were extended and fiery red, a few faint traces of foam were on the bit, but her mouth was dry and parched as the ground she galloped over.

  2. His nostrils sucked in greedily a refreshing, life-giving damp.

  3. In his nostrils was the acrid smell of gunpowder.

  4. But Glooskap filled it full, and, lighting it, burnt all the tobacco to ashes at one pull, and blew all the smoke through his nostrils at one puff.

  5. A poor man's breath, borne on the vehicle of tobacco-smoke, floats into a palace-window and reaches the nostrils of a monarch.

  6. Unless these slime-clogged nostrils can be made capable of inhaling celestial air, I know not how the purest and most intellectual of us can reasonably expect ever to taste a breath of it.

  7. Murden turned away with a sigh, as though the strong fumes which assailed his nostrils were suggestive of lost hopes, and for the remainder of the day, he was melancholy.

  8. The eyes and nostrils of the traveller become irritated by the fine particles, and the dust is sifted into his ears and mouth.

  9. A sauce pan was doing duty for a coffee-pot, and the fragrant berry was agreeable to the nostrils of hungry men.

  10. The miners were cooking their breakfasts as we passed along, and the fumes of fried pork and boiling coffee greeted our nostrils at every turn.

  11. No sooner had the smell of it reached its nostrils than its eyes began to droop and close, and presently the ever-watchful dragon was sleeping soundly.

  12. As soon as the scent of the herb reached the bulls' nostrils they crouched at his feet; and when Aeetes and his Court, and the Greek princes with them, came forth, lo!

  13. The God who formed us, breathing into our nostrils the breath of life, is, in his Almighty power and wisdom, far removed beyond the sphere of our poor and paltry offices.

  14. She now started up with nostrils expanding and her blue eyes glittering.

  15. Mrs. Gaunt's high-bred nostrils told her where he haunted, and it caused her dismay.

  16. He stood erect, seeing wide-eyed the secrecy of the scene and sensuously inhaling the warm, sweet breath of the canyon-garden through nostrils that dilated and quivered with delight.

  17. For a moment he stood glaring at the bushes, his head erect, his eyes flashing, his nostrils distended, and his whole form fixed and rigid.

  18. The Prince made up for his interrupted pinch, and dabbed at both nostrils as he moved to the window.

  19. The air was soon scented with that odour of roast meat which so deliciously tickles the nostrils of him who has an empty stomach.

  20. By means of these reeds the Indians inhale through their nostrils an intoxicating powder, in which they delight.

  21. We were beginning to feel anxious and hungry, and the tempting whiffs from the large iron pot, where the men were stirring their stew, stung our nostrils in a tantalizing fashion.

  22. As he spoke, a fresh outburst of blood came from his nostrils and mouth, a quiver went over him--and then he was dead.

  23. The other animals--it was all that we could do for them--had only their dusty mouths and nostrils wiped out with a wet sponge.

  24. Every one who has walked through an hospital, will remember how natural it is to subdue the breath, and close the nostrils to the smells of medicine and the close air.

  25. Now his nostrils were filled with rain and bog water and a sodden world.

  26. She had dismounted from her horse, and the beast's smoking nostrils were thawing the ice on her sleeve.

  27. And what matters it if a dead man can stir a whole city and blow into the nostrils of its walking spectres a breath of life?

  28. Nay, rather, I will blow a flame through thy nostrils into the marrow of thy bones, driving thee forward, until I have thee firm in the very hottest of the fire.

  29. But there was an inhuman hardness about it, a fiercely piercing quality in the eyes, cruel lines about nostrils and lips, a general expression of bitter and vindictive malevolence that appalled the boy.

  30. The stew which appealed so strongly to Hugh's nostrils was made up of grouse and squirrel meat, with a very little salt pork to give it savor.

  31. He seemed to menace the other, his nostrils quivered with contempt, and his voice was barbed with passion.

  32. His nostrils dilated like a horse's, and his eyes were restless.

  33. Meanwhile, there without, the light of the carriage lamps pierced the enclosing gloom, played on the silver plating of harness, on the shining coats of the horses, whose nostrils sent out jets of pale steam.

  34. If the world can put a hook in the nostrils of leviathan, and make him play with its maidens, it will substitute good-nature, half contemptuous, for the hostility which our Master here predicts.

  35. The symbolical action reminds us of the Creation story, when into the nostrils was breathed 'the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

  36. All the time our nostrils were fully expanded to inhale the delicious scent of the forest, which closely resembled that of jessamine.

  37. All along one's nostrils are offended by the fetid odour of mud and decayed vegetable matter.

  38. Thorpe shook his foreman off with one impatient motion, and strode away up the river, his head erect, his eyes flashing, his nostrils distended.

  39. He stole along almost furtively, but with a proud upright carriage of his neck, a backward tilt of his fine head, a distention of his nostrils that lent to his appearance a panther-like pride and stealthiness.

  40. He caught the fineness of her nose, straight as a Grecian's, but with some faint suggestion about the nostrils that hinted at piquance.

  41. And, sure enough, when she came with the dish behind Leo's place, the insidious fragrance rose to her nostrils with threefold power.

  42. With his hands grappling the air, his nostrils dilating, and his eyes red, he raged about the room.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nostrils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beak; bill; bugle; muffle; muzzle; nose; nostril; nozzle; proboscis; rostrum; snout; trunk