How do you use Nosed in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Nosed in a sentence
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Nosed meaning
simple past and past participle of nose
Synonyms of Nosed
Using Nosed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of nose
- Useful related words include: hook-nosed, pug-nosed, pug-nose, short-nosed.
- In the example corpus, nosed often appears in combinations such as: nosed over, red nosed, nosed reindeer.
Context around Nosed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nosed
- In this selection, "nosed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hard, red, wet, primates, reindeer and bawheid stand out and add context to how "nosed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a hard nosed kid and and a hard nosed pest on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nosed" sits close to words such as accordion, admires and aftermarket, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nosed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He said round-nosed bullets penetrate better. (7 words)
Friday night is bath night for this red-nosed trio. (10 words)
If you love scrappy, hard-nosed football, this is the bowl game for you. (14 words)
Twice Salisbury went up by seven points on hard-nosed, driving buckets by Mike Geter, but Cannon School got back-to-back 3-pointers from Lincoln Vinson and Swartz and a rebound bucket by Tyler Martin for an 8-0 run and a 36-35 lead after three quarters. (49 words)
Eight-year-old Katie Mooney from Dublin, who was diagnosed with a cancerous Wilms tumour at the age of six, attended a Barretstown family camp in 2022 and accompanied Thomas dressed as red-nosed reindeer Rudolph to launch the appeal. (40 words)
Burl Ives brought merry life to Sam the Snowman in Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, a jolly, Frost-like character who acts as a narrator and also dispenses words of wisdom to the characters in the holiday film. (38 words)
Plus: what was Suella Braverman seeking to achieve this week with her most hard-nosed rhetoric to date on refugees? (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
More recently, taxonomists have preferred to split primates into the suborder Strepsirrhini, or wet-nosed primates, consisting of non-tarsier prosimians, and the suborder Haplorhini, or dry-nosed primates, consisting of tarsiers and the simians.
Alas, it pegged out on the way, probably from the added stress of having a red-nosed bawheid slavering over it.
Burl Ives brought merry life to Sam the Snowman in Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, a jolly, Frost-like character who acts as a narrator and also dispenses words of wisdom to the characters in the holiday film.
But eventually, Joaquín slowed and nosed the car into a dirt driveway that was barricaded by orange netting.
But the key component in the non-lethal efforts is Tanaka's amber-eyed, keen-nosed canine Rela and the rest of the team of specially trained Karelian Bear Dogs, a sturdy and fearless breed originally from Finland.
But they’re beginning to establish a gritty, hard-nosed system from the net out.
Coach Pat Narduzzi has built a hard-nosed program in his Youngstown, Ohio, mold at Pitt.
Eight-year-old Katie Mooney from Dublin, who was diagnosed with a cancerous Wilms tumour at the age of six, attended a Barretstown family camp in 2022 and accompanied Thomas dressed as red-nosed reindeer Rudolph to launch the appeal.
Friday night is bath night for this red-nosed trio.
He added: "It takes more than one snot-nosed Swedish kid to end our century-old love affair with the car.
He was a hard-nosed pest on the ice with a boatload of talent, a combination that made him the worst kind of guy to play against.
If you love scrappy, hard-nosed football, this is the bowl game for you.
In last night’s show, the 35-year-old – who owns The Dollshouse Salon in Central - was among five candidates grilled by Alan Sugar’s hard-nosed advisors which resulted in a triple firing.
Plus: what was Suella Braverman seeking to achieve this week with her most hard-nosed rhetoric to date on refugees?
Shea’s a hard-nosed kid and she coaches the way her personality is.
That strategy worked for a bit as Camden Hills frustrated the more talented, taller, stronger and more experienced Mariners with hard-nosed, often harasing defense.
Twice Salisbury went up by seven points on hard-nosed, driving buckets by Mike Geter, but Cannon School got back-to-back 3-pointers from Lincoln Vinson and Swartz and a rebound bucket by Tyler Martin for an 8-0 run and a 36-35 lead after three quarters.
Even the hardest-nosed businessperson can sometimes be willing to compromise on price or terms.
He said round-nosed bullets penetrate better.
He’s hard-nosed and dependable, skates effectively and knows how to use his body to protect the puck.
Common combinations with nosed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: