noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
fill
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An oily fish smell fills your nostrils .
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The sharp, acrid male smell which rose from his hot skin filled my nostrils .
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The smell of growing is everywhere, filling our nostrils with a kind of mist.
flare
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Dad was flaring his nostrils and giving him a wild stare.
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He flared his nostrils at her, a sign of affection.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And her nostrils caught the smell of charring wood.
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Her almost flat nose tended to widen at the nostrils, flaring over a tidal wave of a mouth.
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In front there were two eyes and a single central nostril , like that of a lamprey.
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Magee could feel it clogging his nostrils.
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She pokes the other end inside her nostril .
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There were two cavernous nostrils and Nuadu realised that this was the reason for the hissing whispering voice.
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When she came to, the acrid tingling of sal volatile was in her nostrils.