How to Use nosed in a Sentence

nosed

adjective

• In a shadowy crevasse, a red-nosed clown strummed a banjo in the dark.
  — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• But the former two bands were still snot-nosed punks to most of the mainstream public.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• But some of the fence-sitting is down to hard-nosed realpolitik.
  — Monica Mark, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2022
• Bridges agreed that Wednesday’s game will be a tough-nosed battle.
  — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2023
• Edwards and Ty’Son Williams, both hard-nosed runners, seem well suited for the task.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 6 Sep. 2021
• With the team’s average height at 6-foot-2, its size lends itself to hard-nosed play.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2022
• At the end of the day, a hard-nosed defender making winning plays and impacting the game.
  — oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2022
• Carlisle would like to see his team adopt those hard-nosed traits moving forward.
  — James Boyd, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Nov. 2021
• The last Dolphins coach, Brian Flores, was gruff and hard nosed.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
• Then there is ‘No. 4,’ the hard-nosed running back who doesn’t lack any confidence between the lines.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 8 Nov. 2022
• Hard-nosed, strategic, a no-excuse kind of guy is how Cage described him.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2022
• The Halloween version to Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, this adorable movie teaches kids that pumpkins can come in all shapes and sizes.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 22 June 2022
• This is a show-stopping piece of fish and will win over even the most hard-nosed carnivorous critics.
  — Josh Niland, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2021
• That hard-nosed work ethic stems back to her on-the-field trials earlier in her career.
  — Johanna Gretsche, SELF, 24 July 2021
• Even Cobb, a crusty, ornery, hard-nosed player, liked Chapman, Sowell said.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2021
• He is known as a hard-nosed player that brings a defensive mentality to the other side of the ball.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2021
• But one Fossil Lake gar is blunt-nosed and with knobby teeth like molars.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
• The ones who didn’t know me would take one look at this snotty-nosed, bucktoothed, egg-headed 11-year-old and think easy money.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
• But the efficiency, smart play and hard-nosed play are always needed for this team.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 27 Feb. 2022
• Not long ago, the boxy, brick-nosed pickup might have drawn the interest of a bricklayer or a roofer looking for a cheap work truck.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021
• Still, the Mavericks feature a growing stable of hard-nosed backs.
  — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022
• In the end, Bush came down in favor of a hard-nosed judgment of US national interests over ideals.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 30 Nov. 2022
• Deborah becomes a kind of hard-nosed mentor to Ava, pushing her to look up from her navel.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2021
• Like Porter, Batum and House, Martin could help on both ends of the court by knocking down open threes and playing hard-nosed defense.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• For good or ill, with words or actions, Chicago Blackhawks great Eric Nesterenko was known as a hard-nosed type.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2022
• Gibbs was joined by the great DJ-producer the Alchemist for his pugnacious, heaving set of hard-nosed hip-hop.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2021
• That first title came with Saban’s calling card at his many stops: a tough-nosed, old-school defense.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2022
• The hard-nosed MC floats over Tyler’s boisterous production.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2021
• Guests can view moray eels, giant groupers and shovel-nosed guitar fish right from their tables.
  — Rebecca Treon, Chron, 15 Mar. 2022
• But his toughness in many ways offsets his shooting and has endeared Winslow to Billups, who played with hard-nosed teams in Detroit.
  — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2022

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