How to Use schnoz in a Sentence
schnoz
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Derwin James has the best football schnoz in the business.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
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For one thing, your schnoz will most likely expand quite a bit.
—Allison Bond, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2010
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But my big schnoz and a thin head make getting into and out of full-face helmets painfully awkward.
—Damon Lavrinc, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2013
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In Paskhover’s office in New York, new patients would plop down, hand over their phone, and complain about how their schnoz looked in selfies.
—Carolyn Crist, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2018
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Once ridiculed by all the other reindeer, Rudolph's fluorescent schnoz saved the day by guiding Santa's sleigh through dense fog.
—Holly Yan, CNN, 20 Dec. 2017
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But a 48-year-old Australian man needed an entirely different kind of nugget mined from his schnoz.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2019
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For many Earthlings, our planet is teeming with airborne pollens, spores, and toxins that clog schnozes and turn windpipes wheezy.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 July 2017
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Wright, who cast Peter Dinklage in the title role, traded a big schnoz for small stature as his hero’s signature weakness, a fine idea, but not enough to make up for the general corniness.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
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Formation,’’ Beyoncé states her preference for a big schnoz in a world in which a smaller, button nose remains the standard for all races.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 25 July 2017
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When a microorganism, a dust particle or tiny piece of arts-and-crafts glitter tries to get into your body via your schnoz, sticky mucus (mostly water, proteins and sugars) ensnares it.
—Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 31 Jan. 2023
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The 2019 Sierra is larger overall, has a bolder schnoz and uses new lighting technology to dramatic effect.
—Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2018
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The part only caught his eye when the writer-director Erica Schmidt (also Dinklage’s wife) started work on a musical that imagined a Cyrano sans prosthetic schnoz.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 21 Dec. 2021
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An animal schnoz is obviously superior to our own mediocre noses, right?
—Marta Zaraska, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2017
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Isn’t a sudden change in fuel-economy standards a sucker punch in the schnoz of engineers toiling late into the Ambien hours to invent yet more efficient internal-combustion engines?
—John Phillips, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2018
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