English example sentences with "thumb"

The glove has a hole in the thumb.
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As a rule of thumb, you should plan on one pound of beef for every two guests.
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I pricked my thumb with a needle.
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He accidentally hit his thumb with the hammer.
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He picked up a butterfly between his thumb and forefinger.
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She had no rule of thumb about it, but she got it right every time.
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He has her under his thumb.
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I'll pound you at thumb wars anytime.
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After filling your pipe with tobacco, tamp it down with your thumb, but don't pack it too tightly.
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I hurt my thumb doing a handspring.
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She has him under her thumb.
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The hand has five fingers: the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the pinky.
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Tom accidentally threw his thumb drive into the garbage.
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Tom caught a mosquito between his thumb and first finger.
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My grandmother has a green thumb.
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His wife has him under the thumb.
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He's under the thumb.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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I know internally that it stabbed my thumb. Something evil was coming close.
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The wart on my thumb bled badly after picking at it all afternoon.
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Tom deleted all the files off his thumb drive.
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The acid burned his thumb and the other side of his palm.
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Tom accidentally hit his thumb with a hammer.
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Tom is sucking his thumb.
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Tom held the coin between his thumb and forefinger.
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It looks like you've got a green thumb.
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Fortunately, I have a green thumb.
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Tom won the thumb-wrestling competition.
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He grabbed the butterfly with his thumb and index finger.
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You stick out like a sore thumb.
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Tom sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Tom stuck out like a sore thumb.
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Tom sucked his thumb until he was three.
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The thumb is the outstanding part of the human hand.
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It sticks out like a sore thumb.
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He sticks out like a sore thumb.
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She sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Tom has Mary under his thumb.
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You've severely sprained your thumb.
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Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed upon the white wrist.

Sami was still sucking his thumb.

"I only wished to ask a question," said Holmes, with his finger and thumb in his waistcoat pocket.

This was found between the finger and thumb of the dead man.

I will admit that I didn’t always stick to this rule of thumb.

Mary is sucking her thumb.

He's sucking his thumb.

She's sucking her thumb.

As he held the match nearer, I saw that it was more than a stain. It was the well-marked print of a thumb.

When Meredith bought this northern Texas land several years ago, it was overgrazed and overrun with weeds. Now, she’s thrilled to find a dark green blob of fungus she rolls under her sparkly-nail-polished thumb.

Tom still sucks his thumb.

I cracked my thumb.

Your thumb is covering the number.

I have a thumb drive.

I held her hand and stoked it with my thumb.

It’s impossible not to stand out like a sore thumb when you’re seven feet tall.

Tom has two rings on his thumb.

They had time to thumb through some comics before the store closed.

Be careful not to hit your thumb with the hammer.

It really hurt when I hit my thumb with the hammer.

Tom never outgrew his habit of sucking his thumb whenever he was bored.

We hold the pen with two fingers: the thumb and the index finger.

A mitten is a glove shaped to separate only the thumb from the remaining four fingers.

A mitten is a glove shaped to separate only the thumb, and not the remaining four fingers.

I stick out like a sore thumb.

Tom crushed the bug with his thumb.

Yanni is no longer under Skura's thumb.

A sociopath likes to keep people under his thumb.

I put the documents on a thumb drive.

Yanni raised his arm up and stuck up his thumb.

Starting from the thumb, fingers are also referred to as "Daddy finger", "Mummy finger", "Brother finger", "Sister finger" and "Baby finger".

You may thumb your nose at romance novels, but some of the writing is quite good.

That's a pretty good rule of thumb.

The baby is sucking his thumb.

The baby sucks his thumb.

Starting from the thumb, your fingers are called the "thumb", "index finger", "middle finger", "ring finger", and "pinky".

The Seventh Men were pigmies, scarcely heavier than the largest of terrestrial flying birds. Through and through they were organized for flight. A leathery membrane spread from the foot to the tip of the immensely elongated and strengthened "middle" finger. The three "outer" fingers, equally elongated, served as ribs to the membrane; while the index and thumb remained free for manipulation. The body assumed the streamlines of a bird, and was covered with a deep quilt of feathery wool.

I don't have a green thumb at all.

Put your thumb on the scanner.

All photographs are already on a thumb drive.

I asked Tom to help make photocopies, but he tends to thumb his nose at jobs he thinks are "women's work."

Ziri was born without a thumb on his left hand.

The code name of the action is Tom Thumb.

Ziri didn't want to live under Rima's thumb.

You'll stick out like a sore thumb.

He continues to suck his thumb like a child.

The rule of thumb is that whatever functionality does not currently exist will either take a very long time to be implemented or never appear. The number of developers is small, the number of things that need to be fixed is huge, and the number of divergent opinions on the advisability of any particular measure is also large, meaning that discussion will take a long time and often not lead to a result.

The old farmhouse stuck out like a sore thumb.

I hurt my thumb real bad.

The child sucked its thumb.

The child sucked his thumb.

The child sucked her thumb.

I saw the baby sucking its thumb.

Mr. and Mrs. William Webster had come all the way from Woodford to Concord, leaving three babies at home, to assist their old friends at the Inaugural Ball. You must have guessed that Mollie O'Neill, as Mrs. William Webster, would have grown plumper and prettier during the busy, happy years of married life with her husband and children on their large farm. For Mollie now had a small daughter "Polly," named for her beloved twin sister, and a pair of twin sons, Dan and Billy. She was more than ever in love with her husband and, many people believed, entirely under his thumb. Yet there were times when Mollie could and would assert herself in a surprising fashion just as she had in former days with her girl friends.

No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.

Tom won the thumb war.

Tom sucks his thumb.

Tom sucked his thumb.

I broke off my thumb nail.

My thumb hurts.