nosing

present participle of nose

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nosing
Verb
  • Common signals include sniffing, circling, squatting, or whining.
    Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025
  • With help from a drug-sniffing dog and X-ray technology, CBP officers discovered packages hidden inside the car.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Here the president is running roughshod over state and local governments that are not interfering in the federal government’s work.
    Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The engineers explain that the robot’s balance and locomotion have been trained in a simulated environment with slopes, obstacles, and interfering forces, where it has been run for hundreds of thousands of virtual hours.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With the shutdown dragging on, GOP leaders in Congress will have to decide soon whether to extend that date, and by how much.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The comments came deep into the third week of the shutdown, which is dragging on with no clear end in sight amid a partisan fight in the Senate over federal funding priorities.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The woman’s husband, a scrawny man in a shabby work uniform, smelling of sewage, drooped behind the gurney.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The Drew Barrymore Show previously went viral for Drew Barrymore smelling her own feet.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The last two seasons have proven that the team starts off slow, which ends up messing their chances of making the playoffs.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Tropical Storm Melissa is crawling through the Caribbean Sea, threatening to unleash life-threatening flooding and mudslides across parts of the region later this week.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • These flat robots have multiple modes of movement, capable of jumping or crawling at multiple speeds.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Essential oils can be used in various ways, such as inhaling them through a diffuser or applying a diluted solution to the skin.
    Emily Brown, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Miners argue increased subjection to the dust has led to an eruption of black lung, an incurable disease associated with inhaling the particles.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Or use your finger, poking it about 2 inches into the soil.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Matthew McConaughey is poking fun at himself.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Nosing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nosing. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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