Nose used in a sentence

Nose in a sentence as a noun

"According to folk belief, it's the distance from the tip of Henry I's nose to the end of his thumb.

I have people swinging large six-figure paychecks in front of my nose day in, day out, all of whom are doing interesting things.

It would have cost them nothing to comply with the ruling properly in the first place; they are now cutting their nose off to spite their face.

If you want to rigorously enforce your copyright, good on ya... but be prepared to pay out the nose when you hurt someone else in the process.

Likely, the OP uses the same password everywhere and some random kid stumbled on his godaddy account and took the domain from under his nose.

Nose in a sentence as a verb

After years of paying through the nose for a Google search appliance that actually wasn't very good, my company decided to replace it with Solr, and it was a really fun project.

Software engineering is a very hot field right now, and developers are in demand--but that doesn't mean you should turn up your nose at companies that maintain their own stringent standards of hiring.

Like with anything else, the question isn't whether the rich will be able to afford it, the question is how much progress can we make in making it cheap, how quickly, to get it to how many people?It is a moral imperative to make sure that short-sighted class warfare does not cut off the nose to spite the face by destroying this work under the guise of egalitarianism, because we can not turn on a dime and immediately grant it to everyone on day one. Yes, the rich will get it first.

It's hilarious to see the exact opposite happen: an 80 person company with a multi-page visio org chart, six departments, seven VPs, five pages of expense report rules and regulations, meetings scheduled to plan when to schedule other meetings, and nobody listens to the people who know what to do next because the visionary VC-installed-CEO is Touched By God and can't be questioned even as the company nose dives into obsolescence.