1. The hall was invaded by legions of snotty-nosed, tousle-haired, black-faced imps.

2. He doesn't enjoy the company of snotty-nosed children.

3. Experience suggests that snotty-nosed toddlers pass their infections on to family members more frequently than older children do.

4. More surprising by far, however, was what that tiny, snotty-nosed thirteen-year-old had become.

5. There was nothing in the unwritten rulebook of family responsibility that required her to raise some little snotty-nosed great-grandkid.