nostril
nostril
Definition
nos·tril (näs′trəl)
nostril
Synonyms
nostril
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- flare: He raised his eyebrows, then blew out a jet of air between flared nostrils.
- have: It had a long jaw with 80 pointed teeth, it also had nostrils at the upper jaws tip.
- pinch: Apply direct pressure by having the player pinch the nostrils with the fingers.
- quiver: He drew himself up instead to face death, with a quivering nostril.
- leave: They removed the brain by placing a chisel up the left nostril and breaking through the skull.
- dilate: Breathing in through dilated nostrils opens their lungs to their fullest capacity.
Adjective modifier
- left: Each of them passes to his seat along different parts of the right or left nostril.
- right: The to demand bearded white around at a whip of the hair japanese man style follicle his right black men nostrils rotting him.
- wide: HEAD " Clean cut face; wide forehead; wide nostrils " .
- other: The NG tube is placed through the other nostril.
- large: The nose, which is well set between the eyes, should be short and broad with large open nostrils.
- open: The nose, which is well set between the eyes, should be short and broad with large open nostrils.
Modifies a noun
- area: Men and women who want to correct the disproportionate or irregular shape of either their profile, bridge, nasal tip or nostril area.
- spread: The mouth is pursed, the nostril spread and drawn up, the eyebrows very highly arched.
- flare: Her dark eyes are rimmed with white and her pink nostrils flare with quick, explosive breaths.
Possessives
- horse: Try taking a fly fringe and attaching it to the nose band so it hangs over the horse's nostrils.
- man: When God breathed His own breath into man's nostrils He, in fact conferred upon him an immortal existence.
- baby: Line baby up with the mom's nipple pointing toward baby's nostrils.
Preposition: of
- man: In Genesis 2:7 God breathed into the nostrils of man who was made from dust of the earth.
Preposition: with
- finger: Apply direct pressure by having the player pinch the nostrils with the fingers.
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- not
- not a little
- not always
- not at all
- not completely
- not entirely
- not especially
