Nostrils in example sentence

if I appear not in these lists I lose fame and rank--lose that which is the breath of my nostrils, the esteem, I mean, in which I am held by my brethren, and the hopes I have of succeeding to that mighty authority, which is now wielded by the bigoted dotard Lucas de Beaumanoir, but of which I should make a different use.

More example sentences with word nostrils

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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