NOSTRIL in a Sentence

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For NOSTRIL, below is one of 73 sentences:
A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOSTRIL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nostril
 n.  either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  Quiescent as he now sat, there was something about his nostril, his mouth, his brow, which, to my perceptions, indicated elements within either restless, or hard, or eager.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  The present Catherine has no other likeness to her, except a breadth of forehead, and a certain arch of the nostril that makes her appear rather haughty, whether she will or not.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  Much as if one nostril was caught up with a horse-hair and a little fish-hook.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
5  Flanks sucked in and out, the long nose resting on his paws, a fleck of foam on the nostril, there he was, his familiar spirit, his Afghan hound.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
6  And here, released by Candish, racing across the lawn with a fleck of foam on the nostril, came his dog.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
7  The hospitals stank of gangrene, the odor assaulting her nostrils long before the doors were reached, a sickish sweet smell that clung to her hands and hair and haunted her in her dreams.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  I execrate these vampires who are sucking the lifeblood of the men who follow Robert Lee--these men who are making the very name of blockader a stench in the nostrils of all patriotic men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  Dust clogged Scarlett's nostrils and dried her lips.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  Smoke burnt her nostrils and Wade and Prissy began coughing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  She took the wet gourd dipper from him, her nostrils wrinkling in distaste at the reek.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  Strange that the sharp smell did not offend her nostrils now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  The back kick of the pistol made her reel, as the roar of the explosion filled her ears and the acrid smoke stung her nostrils.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  And there was the old portrait of Grandma Robillard, with bosoms half bared, hair piled high and nostrils cut so deeply as to give her face a perpetual well-bred sneer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  Then to her nostrils was borne the smell of smoke and she turned, too weak with lessening strain, to care about the cotton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  Apply pressure to the nose by pinching the nostrils firmly together.
2  Pinch the nostrils together between your thumb and finger to stop the bleeding.
3  Her nostrils were pinkish, as though she had a cold.
4  I recognised his decisive nose, more remarkable for character than beauty; his full nostrils, denoting, I thought, choler.