How to Use by a nose in a Sentence

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• The race was one of Trump against Trump, in which Mr. Trump defeated himself by a nose.
  — WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
• In the stretch, however, Carmouche smooched at his colt, rubbed its neck and got every ounce of speed to win by a nose.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• Hernandez remounted, Handy Dandy returned to the gate and won by a nose over Script in the one-mile turf race for 3-year-olds.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
• Marche Lorraine edged Dunbar Road by a nose after a photo finish in the Distaff.
  — Beth Harris, baltimoresun.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• In other races: — Aloha West scored an upset in winning the $2 million Sprint by a nose.
  — Beth Harris, ajc, 6 Nov. 2021
• Marche Lorraine edged Dunbar Road by a nose, with the crowd anxiously waiting out the photo finish in the Distaff.
  — Beth Harris, ajc, 6 Nov. 2021
• When the center is occupied by a nose tackle, that creates a two-on-two for the defense’s best pass rushers.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• The colt finished fourth in the Grade 1 Hopeful at Saratoga after finishing second by a nose in his first start.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• The horse and jockey Tom Marquand defeated High Fibre by a nose, the smallest margin in horse racing.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 12 Apr. 2022
• In horse racing, lots of contenders hang with the leader into the stretch run until true finishers find another gear to win by a nose.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
• But Smith won by a nose because of the unparalleled lenses, plus a few small performance details.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 20 May 2019
• The researchers don’t know — perhaps they were destroyed by the immune system, fell prey to viruses or were unceremoniously yanked out by a nose strip, clearing the way for new founders.
  — New York Times, 6 Jan. 2022
• One aspect of Cinco Jotas’ quality control beats its other Old World habits by a nose: a cadre of six sniffers whose job is to poke each pork loin in four specific places with probes made of cow bone and take evaluative whiffs.
  — Richard Morgan, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• Diners rated the other temperatures and cooking times as all similar to each other, but thick steaks cooked at moderate temperatures won out by a nose.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2021

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