2 Sentences With "nosed at"

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The deer nosed at the apple, then walked along and nibbled some leaves. from The New York Times
Thayer wrote genre romances that were disliked by contemporary literary critics.Thirteen Women, by Tiffany Thayer at Neglected Books Page, February 13, 2011 Dorothy Parker, in a New Yorker review of An American Girl, said "He is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically, and aggressively unattractive that one is fairly shaken to ponder how little one has been missing." F. Scott Fitzgerald said "curious children nosed at the slime of Mr. Tiffany Thayer in the drug- store libraries." Kunitz and Haycraft cited an anonymous reviewer who described Thayer's work as "obviously meretricious, but disclosing a narrative gift which might be used to better purpose".