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
  • Shelving the movie put noses out of joint with talks of a potential tax write-down.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Shelving the movie put noses out of joint with talks of a potential tax write-down.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Shelving the movie put noses out of joint at the time with talks of a potential tax write-down.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 8 May 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
  • 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
  • Mahomes has mostly kept his nose out of trouble during the 2024 season.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • LaMalfa thinks the federal government should keep its nose out of states’ electoral business.
    — Michelle Cottle, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Boy, that Vladimir Putin just can’t keep his nose out of American presidential elections.
    — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yamamoto actually only nosed out James Paxton by 2/3 of an inning for that third spot.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • 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
  • The resulting anti-censorship lawsuit went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the federal government should keep its nose out of the cable content business.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Australians, the thinking goes, should keep their noses out of China’s business, both inside its borders and around its coastlines, and accept that the future Asian order will be centered on Beijing.
    — Michael Fullilove, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
  • With his occasionally brusque manner, his maniacal secrecy about team selection and his refusal to explain his tactical decisions, Luis Enrique put a few noses out of joint in the French media.
    — Tom Williams, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Fleur and Caroline put innumerable noses out of joint on their paths to creative and intellectual fulfillment; lovers become dejected, friendships are left to go cold, and each woman’s devotion to her work is viewed with resentment and suspicion.
    — Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
  • Once trained up, canines can nose out the disease within weeks of infection, trouncing all other available detection methods in both timing and accuracy, the researchers report today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2020

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