FINGER in a Sentence

Learn FINGER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
343 example sentences for FINGER, such as:
1. The baby is sucking its finger.
2. He nipped his finger in the door.
3. I held up one finger to check him.
4. She pointed her finger in my direction.
5. Ben had got his finger jammed in the door.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FINGER
finger
 n.  the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
 n.  any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  For a confused moment she tried to remember Charles' face--how he had looked when he slipped it on her finger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  She was tugging at her own wedding ring, the ring Scarlett knew had never once left that finger since Ashley put it there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Melanie slipped the ring on her finger and looked at it lovingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Sherman hadn't laid a finger on it for all his frontal attacks, cavalry dashes and flank movements.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  Seeing the panic written on the little black face and fearing she might alarm Melanie by crying out evil tidings, Scarlett hastily put her finger to her lips and left the window.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  When he saw her, his face puckered and he began to cry, holding up a grubby bruised finger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  "Wade hungwy," he sobbed and put the hurt finger in his mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  She drank again, a slow train of warmth lighting in her veins and stealing through her body until even her finger tips tingled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  There it lay in this stranger's calloused dirty palm and soon it would find its way North and onto the finger of some Yankee woman who would be proud to wear stolen things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  Tonight she was alive to her finger tips, every sense alert with hope, her eyes sparkling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  There is always something wrong with his arguments but I never can put my finger on just what it is.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  But she restrained herself and she found that twisting Yankee men around her finger was no more difficult than that same diversion had been with Southern men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  Nobody but a born gentleman could have put his finger on what is wrong with us as accurately as he just did, down there at the burying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
15  He paused and looked down at the baby, putting out a finger for the child to grip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
Example Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  The doctor was able to treat the disease although he could not put his finger on the exact cause.
2  She suddenly held up a small, bony finger and pointed across the room.
3  The doctor was able to treat the disease although he could not lay his finger on the exact cause.
4  We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
5  The baby is sucking its finger.
6  The baby took my finger in its tenacious little fist.
7  The worker bashed his finger with a hammer.
8  She held the coin carefully between finger and thumb.
9  Hold the material between finger and thumb.
10  The doctor stuck my finger with a needle to get blood sample.
11  I held up one finger to check him.
12  She pointed her finger in my direction.
13  Ben had got his finger jammed in the door.
14  He nipped his finger in the door.
15  He explored the wound with his finger, trying to establish its extent.