How to Use nosed in a Sentence

nosed

adjective
  • Blackford helped steady the ship with her hard-nosed play in the paint.
    cleveland, 10 Mar. 2021
  • In a shadowy crevasse, a red-nosed clown strummed a banjo in the dark.
    New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The hard-nosed forward had 17 points and 13 rebounds off the bench.
    Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 1 Feb. 2021
  • If a little snot-nosed kid coughs or sneezes on you, the gloves will pick it up.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 22 Dec. 2020
  • But the former two bands were still snot-nosed punks to most of the mainstream public.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Smith & Wesson snub-nosed revolver and put it on the counter.
    Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 22 June 2020
  • But some of the fence-sitting is down to hard-nosed realpolitik.
    Monica Mark, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Our kids are blue-collar, hard-nosed kids, tough, know how to work.
    Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Like them, Wallinder is a strong skater and hard-nosed competitor.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Bridges agreed that Wednesday’s game will be a tough-nosed battle.
    Michael Haag, Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Howell ran around and through tacklers, using a hard-nosed style to move the chains.
    Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Bare-nosed wombats can excrete four to eight scat pieces at a time and may poop up to 100 cubes a day.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2021
  • No doubt, hard-nosed defense has taken us to this point.
    Randy Jennings, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2020
  • 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 | Nalvarez@al.com, 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
  • In April, the lesser long-nosed bat became the first bat to be taken off the Endangered Species List.
    Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 22 Apr. 2019
  • To be such a hard-nosed safety, his performance wasn't too bad.
    Josiah Turner, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • So Howard sat down with Simpson, Michigan's hard-nosed point guard.
    Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2019
  • 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
  • In short, how do the players in this league really stack up by hard-nosed road testers' standards?
    Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 22 June 2020
  • Kentucky is a hard-nosed team that plays a physical brand of football.
    Christopher Smith, al, 16 Oct. 2020
  • That hard-nosed work ethic stems back to her on-the-field trials earlier in her career.
    Johanna Gretsche, SELF, 24 July 2021
  • Now it’s been turned over to Moore, who wants to sustain Harvard’s success, but with tough-nosed defense.
    Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Massive colonies make lesser long-nosed bats the easiest to study among agave-feeding bats; they were taken off the endangered species list in 2018.
    National Geographic, 16 Feb. 2023

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