How to Use nostril in a Sentence

nostril

noun

• My left nostril is stuffed up.
• She left in a rage, her nostrils flaring.
• Then breathe in through the right nostril, and out through the left.
  — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 15 May 2017
• Not quite in the same way as whisky fumes in the nostrils, though.
  — The Economist, 23 May 2020
• The nostrils flared, the neck thick, the eyes shocked and orb-like, the mouth tight with some strain.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2019
• And whenever the wind kicked up, the smell of dust and dirt filled the nostrils.
  — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
• The mustard is the kind that singes your nostrils and leaves a tear in your eye.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• Spray half the dose up one nostril and half up the other.
  — Tessie Castillo, SELF, 26 July 2018
• One swab up a nostril, another to the back of the throat.
  — Lavender Au, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2020
• Place the thumb of that hand on your right nostril and your ring and pinkie fingers on the left.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Sep. 2017
• The men hit the ground as the blast hit, the smell of cordite and dust going deep into their nostrils.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• My blood pressure rose, and the dry heat from the oven cracked the skin of my nostrils and made my nose bleed.
  — Charlie Anderle, Bon Appetit, 3 May 2018
• Its ears and nostrils and fingers and toes are all there.
  — Anna Lea Hand, Longreads, 3 Mar. 2020
• This can happen when the fly lays eggs in a toad’s nostrils or eyes.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
• Connect the top of that line in a curvy, wave-like swoop down to the line on the outer edge of your nostril.
  — Jessica Teich, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
• How does the vibration in the back of his throat and through his nostrils not rouse him?
  — Meredith Bodgas, Woman's Day, 29 July 2015
• In this hematoma, blood collects in the area of the nose between the nostrils (septum).
  — Elizabeth Quinn, Verywell Health, 14 Apr. 2023
• To use, hold the nasal device up to a nostril and press the small ejector button on the end.
  — Tessie Castillo, SELF, 26 July 2018
• Remove the Narcan from the package and put the tip in either nostril and press the plunger.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
• For the record, she's also got nostrils, teeth, thumbs, feet and butt cheeks, plus more.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 May 2017
• Cuong first drove a knife into each of his nostrils as a warm-up.
  — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 5 June 2024
• Injections cannot narrow the nasal tip or bring the nostrils in to slim the width of the nose at its base.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 11 Mar. 2019
• The two smelled much more different through the nostril that had been closed.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2024
• White powder is caked on the goat’s nostrils in the shaky, dimly lit video.
  — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 16 Feb. 2018
• Feel the air rush through your nostrils as your lungs expand.
  — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 24 Jan. 2020
• Lagos comes in snatches, its smell stuck to the roof of my nostrils.
  — Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018
• The mask smell, high in my nostrils, is washed away by the banter with these people.
  — Jay Baruch, STAT, 27 Mar. 2020
• Like, is there a way to avoid having one nostril that's more stuffed up than the other?
  — Korin Miller, Health, 1 Oct. 2023
• The dirt stings the flesh, gets into their eyes, coats their mouths and is sucked up into their nostrils.
  — Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2018
• This bacteria is commonly carried in the nostrils, between the legs, in the armpits, and in the cleft between the buttocks.
  — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024