Nostril
noun
One of the two openings in the nose through which people breathe.
She had a cold and her nostrils were stuffed.
Often appears as...
- flared nostrils
- narrow nostrils
noun
One of the two openings in the nose through which people breathe.
She had a cold and her nostrils were stuffed.
Often appears as...
- flared nostrils
- narrow nostrils
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Descriptions
Use 'nostril' when describing someone's nose for details or if they're flaring their nostrils.
When he got angry, his nostrils flared noticeably.
Pro Tip 2/3Blocked Nostrils
Mention 'nostrils' to discuss breathing difficulties, like when having a cold.
With her nostrils blocked, she struggled to breathe clearly.
Pro Tip 3/3Animal Descriptions
Animals have nostrils too, useful in descriptions for biology or storytelling.
The horse's wide nostrils flared as it galloped around the track.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Descriptions
Use 'nostril' when describing someone's nose for details or if they're flaring their nostrils.
When he got angry, his nostrils flared noticeably.
Pro Tip 2/3Blocked Nostrils
Mention 'nostrils' to discuss breathing difficulties, like when having a cold.
With her nostrils blocked, she struggled to breathe clearly.
Pro Tip 3/3Animal Descriptions
Animals have nostrils too, useful in descriptions for biology or storytelling.
The horse's wide nostrils flared as it galloped around the track.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Descriptions
Use 'nostril' when describing someone's nose for details or if they're flaring their nostrils.
When he got angry, his nostrils flared noticeably.
Pro Tip 2/3Blocked Nostrils
Mention 'nostrils' to discuss breathing difficulties, like when having a cold.
With her nostrils blocked, she struggled to breathe clearly.
Pro Tip 3/3Animal Descriptions
Animals have nostrils too, useful in descriptions for biology or storytelling.
The horse's wide nostrils flared as it galloped around the track.
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How do we smell? - Rose...
takes a direct route to these different regions of the brain, where it can trigger your fight-or-flight response, help you recall memories, or make your mouth water. But even though we've all got the same physiological set-up, two nostrils and millions of olfactory neurons, not everybody smells the same things. One of the most famous examples of this
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The extraordinary lives...
leech and there are a bunch of cases of this that happened around the world there was one that we encountered from Peru where there is a young boy who had a leech that was stuck up in his nostril this is an endoscope going up to the back of the sinuses there and if you look carefully you'll eventually see the
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Spotting the World's...
making them the fastest animal in the world. Travelling at speeds of more than 300 kilometres per hour. Anything moving that quickly would have huge amounts of air firing straight in and her nostrils here, if the air was travelling super fast and she had no way to manage it,
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How to spot a liar PIPE...
Your eyebrow twitched. You flared your nostril. I watch that TV show 'Lie To Me.' I know you're lying." No, liespotters are armed with scientific knowledge of how to spot deception. They use it to get to the truth, and they do what mature leaders do everyday;
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How do dogs "see" with...
The ability to smell separately with each nostril, smelling in stereo, helps to determine the direction of the smell's source so that within the first few moments of sniffing, the dog starts to become aware of not just what kind of things are out there
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The Mummification of...
of drying out and embalming the body to preserve it, ready for its journey to immortality in the afterlife. Key to it all was the preparation of the body. Typically, your brain is pulled out through your nostrils with an iron hook.
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4 Adorable Animals That...
lifestyle but are much less adapted to water their feet are less webbed and they spend more of their time on land they have rounded shorter snouts with smaller nostrils and they only have one set of incisor teeth pygmy hippos are
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Can you be awake and...
holding their nostrils above the surface, closing their upward-facing eye, and keeping their downward-facing eye open. This may help them stay alert to threats from the depths. Similar pressures keep birds partially awake.
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Is fire a solid, a...
Sitting around a campfire, you can feel its heat, smell the woody smoke, and hear it crackle. If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever
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Why Dogs Stick Their...
the side slits in their nostrils as the expelled air rotates it helps draw more sand into the news this two-week current helps a dog gather sand
Video examples
How do we smell? - Rose...
takes a direct route to these different regions of the brain, where it can trigger your fight-or-flight response, help you recall memories, or make your mouth water. But even though we've all got the same physiological set-up, two nostrils and millions of olfactory neurons, not everybody smells the same things. One of the most famous examples of this
Video examples
The extraordinary lives...
leech and there are a bunch of cases of this that happened around the world there was one that we encountered from Peru where there is a young boy who had a leech that was stuck up in his nostril this is an endoscope going up to the back of the sinuses there and if you look carefully you'll eventually see the
Video examples
Spotting the World's...
making them the fastest animal in the world. Travelling at speeds of more than 300 kilometres per hour. Anything moving that quickly would have huge amounts of air firing straight in and her nostrils here, if the air was travelling super fast and she had no way to manage it,
Video examples
How to spot a liar PIPE...
Your eyebrow twitched. You flared your nostril. I watch that TV show 'Lie To Me.' I know you're lying." No, liespotters are armed with scientific knowledge of how to spot deception. They use it to get to the truth, and they do what mature leaders do everyday;
Video examples
How do dogs "see" with...
The ability to smell separately with each nostril, smelling in stereo, helps to determine the direction of the smell's source so that within the first few moments of sniffing, the dog starts to become aware of not just what kind of things are out there
Video examples
The Mummification of...
of drying out and embalming the body to preserve it, ready for its journey to immortality in the afterlife. Key to it all was the preparation of the body. Typically, your brain is pulled out through your nostrils with an iron hook.
Video examples
4 Adorable Animals That...
lifestyle but are much less adapted to water their feet are less webbed and they spend more of their time on land they have rounded shorter snouts with smaller nostrils and they only have one set of incisor teeth pygmy hippos are
Video examples
Can you be awake and...
holding their nostrils above the surface, closing their upward-facing eye, and keeping their downward-facing eye open. This may help them stay alert to threats from the depths. Similar pressures keep birds partially awake.
Video examples
Is fire a solid, a...
Sitting around a campfire, you can feel its heat, smell the woody smoke, and hear it crackle. If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever
Video examples
Why Dogs Stick Their...
the side slits in their nostrils as the expelled air rotates it helps draw more sand into the news this two-week current helps a dog gather sand
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Quote examples
Will Self
English Author
If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.
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Mary Roach
American Author
Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.
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Charles Bukowski
American Author
When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.
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Rohini Nilekani
Indian Writer
As we draw bad fumes into our nostrils, let our suffering lungs issue a call to serious action. Let's fight for all, not just some Indians to breathe and live free.
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Anastasia Soare
Romanian Businesswoman
Brows should begin directly above the middle of your nostrils. The highest point of the arch should connect the tip of the nose with the middle of the iris.
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Sloane Crosley
American Writer
Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.
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Henry Lau
Canadian Singer
One thing everyone kind of found out about me was that my nostrils are heart-shaped. I'm not kidding you, they're heart-shaped.
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Rebecca West
Irish Author
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
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Federico Fellini
Italian Director
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
For my own poor part, I go to great lengths to keep my nostrils sightly.
Quote examples
Will Self
English Author
If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.
Quote examples
Mary Roach
American Author
Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.
Quote examples
Charles Bukowski
American Author
When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.
Quote examples
Rohini Nilekani
Indian Writer
As we draw bad fumes into our nostrils, let our suffering lungs issue a call to serious action. Let's fight for all, not just some Indians to breathe and live free.
Quote examples
Anastasia Soare
Romanian Businesswoman
Brows should begin directly above the middle of your nostrils. The highest point of the arch should connect the tip of the nose with the middle of the iris.
Quote examples
Sloane Crosley
American Writer
Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.
Quote examples
Henry Lau
Canadian Singer
One thing everyone kind of found out about me was that my nostrils are heart-shaped. I'm not kidding you, they're heart-shaped.
Quote examples
Rebecca West
Irish Author
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
Quote examples
Federico Fellini
Italian Director
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Quote examples
Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
For my own poor part, I go to great lengths to keep my nostrils sightly.
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