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
  • In 2009, her own dog, Daisy, nudged her repeatedly in the chest, nosing out a lump that turned out to be breast cancer.
    Megan Molteni, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • Mahomes has mostly kept his nose out of trouble during the 2024 season.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The two men agree on at least one point: Both concede the government should keep its nose out of people’s romantic relationships.
    Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 13 June 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
  • Paunch, who has become less timid, has a proclivity to stop and nose out every possible tree trunk, lamppost, and plinth before gracing it with a tag of his urine.
    Sierra Greer, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
  • LaMalfa thinks the federal government should keep its nose out of states’ electoral business.
    Michelle Cottle, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Peter was in the booth with Herbstreit the other weekend, paws up and nose out.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025

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