Nostrils in example sentence

His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, impatient snarl in reply.

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You've got a long snout that has 200 million scent receptors in it, and you have wet nostrils that attract and trap scent molecules, and your nostrils even have slits so you can take big nosefuls of air.

Smell starts when you sniff molecules from the air into your nostrils.

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.

If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils.

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