stick your nose into something
nose
verb
us/noʊz/

noseverb (SEARCH)

[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]infml
to look around or search in order to discover something, esp. something that other people do not want you to find:
I don’t want you nosing around in my closet.

noseverb (MOVE FORWARD)

[ always+ adv/prep ]
to move forward slowly and carefully:
[ I ]The car nosed out into traffic.

Examples of nose

nose
Lengthening the spike has the effect of moving the point of re-attachment of the separated layer up the nose of the body towards the shoulder.
Consider, for example, the fact that we are all obliged to refrain from picking our respective noses in public places.
Consider that there is no trivial link between the sight of watching someone else scratch their nose, and the experience of scratching your own nose.
All disturbance components have their peaks in the region around the leading edge and decay quickly with increasing distance from the nose.
Generally, the masks are not pierced at the eyes, nose, or mouth.
He kept walking, absentmindedly, until he hit a wall and broke his nose.
All 31 cases provided acute sera, 19 provided convalescent sera and 14 had viral throat/nose swabs taken.
His counterexample to my definition is: touching your nose for 30 seconds (short activity) versus listening to a symphony (long activity).
The applicant relied on medical reports from a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon and a consultant psychiatrist.
Similarly, nose corrections have a wide range of severity and treatment options.
The animal's head was stabilized with a metal clamp over the nose, and a mouth bar with a hole for the upper front teeth.
With chimpanzees exploiting figs that are seasonally clustered in widely scattered trees, the more eyes (noses, ears), the greater the chance of locating food.
While nerve endings in the nose play a central role, the taste certainly is not there.
Steady conical separation from a spike 11 on a hemispherically nosed body.
He was grey, with beautiful almond-shaped eyes and small aquiline nose always red due to a cold.
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Collocations withnose

nose

These are words often used in combination with nose.

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aquiline nose
He was grey, with beautiful almond-shaped eyes and small aquilinenose always red due to a cold.
blunt nose
Consider the surface pressure distributions around the bluntnose shown in figure 6 which were obtained for different computational grids confined to the nose region.
broken nose
Cook got £375 for a brokennose, body injuries and subsequent mental anxiety.
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