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 | [e-mail], 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
• Certain short- or snub-nosed dogs and cats, as well as strong-jawed dog breeds, will be banned.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 May 2018
• Jensen seems to have been a rather rough, hard-nosed character.
  — Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 20 June 2018
• 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
• Thirty years ago, the future looked grim for the lesser long-nosed bat.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
• 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 | [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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024