How to Use nous in a Sentence

nous

noun

• He was recruited at great cost to win this World Cup, and because of his tactical nous in knockout football.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 19 July 2026
• His defensive nous has been questioned previously, but do not underestimate the work that the 22-year-old can get through.
  — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 21 May 2026
• With form, confidence and fluidity in short supply, most expected Arsenal to sit in and lean on their defensive nous.
  — James McNicholas, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026
• The assessment contradicts Western conventional wisdom that Moscow has approached the conflict more as a meat grinder than with strategic nous.
  — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
• The fact that celebrity landed upon him, plucking him from the obscurity of his mission to represent the burgeoning discourse on the disease, says more about the world that orbited him than his actions on the island or his own political nous.
  — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
• Kazakhstan’s Bublik, 29, has a serve to match Fritz’s, the groundstroke power to match Fritz’s, and more front-court nous and variety than the 28-year-old American.
  — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 5 July 2026