How to Use schnoz in a Sentence

schnoz

noun

• Derwin James has the best football schnoz in the business.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
• For one thing, your schnoz will most likely expand quite a bit.
  — Allison Bond, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2010
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This is a world where snobbery and earnestness abound in equal measure and where sticking one’s schnoz in a glass of wine to better capture the aroma is elevated to a fine art.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• To cement his larger-than-life status, Brahe famously wore a false nose for much of his life after losing his natural schnoz in a duel.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2010
• 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
• 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
• 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
• An animal schnoz is obviously superior to our own mediocre noses, right?
  — Marta Zaraska, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024