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# nostril

«nostril» in Mova's school dictionary: **One of the two openings at the end of your nose that air…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a nostril, nostrils)

### meaning for a pupil

One of the two openings at the end of your nose that air goes in and out through. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nostril/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the body and senses: we breathe and smell through our nostrils; tiny hairs and mucus inside trap dust and germs. In animals: whales breathe through a blowhole, which is their nostril; horses flare their nostrils. Safety: never push small objects into your nostrils.

### examples

- Air goes in through your nostrils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nostril/#x1)
- Hairs in your nostrils catch dust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nostril/#x2)
- The horse flared its nostrils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nostril/#x3)
- Never put beads up your nostril. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nostril/#x4)
- A whale's blowhole is its nostril. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nostril/#x5)
- Breathe in slowly through your nostrils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nostril/#x6)
- My left nostril is blocked because of my cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nostril/#x7)
- And now her nostrils are twitching. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nostril/#x8)

### note

Countable: a nostril, nostrils (we each have two). Spelling: «nostril» ends in «-il», not «-al». Breathing through the nose warms and cleans the air better than breathing through the mouth.

### In the corpora

- [Seals can sleep floating upright with their noses up, hold their breath for many minutes and close their nostrils tightly when they dive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/9/)
- [all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.193/)
- [Smoke arose up in His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth did devour; coals flamed forth from Him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.668/)
- [Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is he to be accounted!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.54/)
- [Smoke arose up in His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth did devour; coals flamed forth from Him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.219/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nostril» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nostril/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.