THUMB in a Sentence
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78 example sentences for THUMB, such as:
1. Hugh experimentally took his thumb.
2. It's all being under somebody's thumb.
3. You can push the pin in with your thumb.
4. Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs.
5. Hold the material between finger and thumb.
2. It's all being under somebody's thumb.
3. You can push the pin in with your thumb.
4. Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs.
5. Hold the material between finger and thumb.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Meanings and Examples of THUMB
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thumb
v. feel or handle with the fingers
n. the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1 Forgotten in the tumult, little Wade crouched behind the banisters on the front porch, peering out onto the lawn like a caged, frightened rabbit, his eyes wide with terror, sucking his thumb and hiccoughing.
2 The nails were broken and irregular, there were heavy calluses on the cushions of the palm, a half-healed blister on the thumb.
3 Handling her needle awkwardly, she jabbed it into her thumb and with a little scream of pain and annoyance that made them all jump, she squeezed it until a bright red drop appeared.
4 Everyone knew that Scarlett's youngest had her father under her thumb and Atlanta was amused and approving.
5 Her thumb and forefinger tugged with no more strength than that of a baby at Scarlett's hair.
6 She rose to her feet abruptly, sinking her teeth into her thumb to regain her control.
7 She put her hand to her mouth, her forefinger and thumb quite painfully pinching her lower lip, and frowned, and enjoyed being aloof.
8 He edged into the room, doubtfully sucking his thumb.
9 Hugh experimentally took his thumb.
10 She caught his thumb and, sighing, held it exactly as Hugh held hers when they went walking.
11 Her fingers tightened about his thumb as she perceived the hot low room, the pounding of pressing-irons, the reek of scorched cloth, and Erik among giggling gnomes.
12 It is also very curiously displayed in the side fin, the bones of which almost exactly answer to the bones of the human hand, minus only the thumb.
13 You might easily dent it with your thumb; it is of a hue between yellow and ash colour.
14 I got hold of his thumb and bent it back, until he let go with a yell.
15 It's all being under somebody's thumb.
Example Sentence:
1 The base of the thumb is where it joins the hand.
2 She held the coin carefully between finger and thumb.
3 Hold the material between finger and thumb.
4 I press the thumbtack into the board with thumb.
5 Hold the rope loosely between your finger and thumb.
6 Pinch the nostrils together between your thumb and finger to stop the bleeding.
7 There is a hole in the thumb of his mitten.
8 You can push the pin in with your thumb.
9 A good rule of thumb is that a broker must generate sales of ten times his salary if his employer is to make a profit.
10 Each boy pricked the ball of his thumb and squeezed out a drop of blood.
11 Have you had to help a child break a pacifier or thumb habit?
12 In a balancing test, the thumb on the scales can overbalance anything.
13 Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs.
14 He had the drawer open and was thumbing through the files.