Nostrils in example sentence

His tangled beard, grizzled hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were tinged with a shade of blue.

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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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