Definition of hawk-nosed in US English:
hawk-nosed
adjectiveˌhɔkˈnoʊzdˌhôkˈnōzd
(of a person) having a nose which is curved like a hawk's beak.
Example sentencesExamples
- He studied the uncontrolled panic on his pale, hawk-nosed face.
- The maître d', a hawk-nosed man with an authentic-sounding snooty French accent, stopped them as they came in and asked if they had reservations.
- When he sneaked a glimpse of his body in a fly-spotted mirror, Sam saw a hawk-nosed, dusty-haired, broad-shouldered man in his early sixties.
- The hawk-nosed designer narrowed his eyes darkly at the boorish interruption.
- At first I often worked with Sveta, a young, slender, hawk-nosed interpreter.
- This is how the dwarfish, hawk-nosed Georgina came to be in the company of a beefy police lieutenant.