thumb

[θʌm]

Definition:
1. The thick short innermost digit of the forelimb.
2. The part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb.
3. A convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse.
4. Travel by getting free rides from motorists.
5. Look through a book or other written material.

Use 'thumb' in a sentence:

1. So are you fast at writing the messages with your thumb?
2. He has always thumbed his nose at the media.
3. It more or less gets the thumbs up from everyone.
4. Some read from old lecture notes and then haltingly explained the thumb-worn last lines.
5. They called him Thomas Thumb.
6. He caught his thumb in the door.
7. He saw her jab her thumb on a red button — a panic button.
8. For the underestimation of each finger length, from the thumb to the pinky, increased by about 7 percent in each finger.
9. Some read from old lecture notes and then haltingly explained the thumb worn last lines.
10. He took the pen between his thumb and forefinger.
11. Thumbing a lift had once a carefree, easy-going image.
12. They also have a thumb on each foot instead of a big toe.
13. Time and again, Mr. Heaney returns to the image of the pen. He began his long career writing of such a pen, nestling snug as a gun between finger and thumb.
14. As a rule of thumb, a cup of filter coffee contains about 80mg of caffeine.
15. They are so small that they can fit under your thumb.
16. There's a hole in the thumb.
17. She has Rachel firmly under her thumb.
18. But they also have a thumb on each foot instead of a big toe.
19. Let's hold thumbs that you get the job.
20. Likewise, a sign for OK, forming a circle with our forefinger and thumb, means zero in France and money in Japan.
21. Tom Thumb, seeing his father, cried out, "See, father, here I am with the cart, all right and safe!"
22. The picture on the right shows its size against a thumb.
23. I cannot tell you what pain I feel when I see how much my mother is under my father's thumb.
24. The Government cannot expect graduates to twiddle their thumbs on the dole.
25. It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories.
26. The ability to quickly thumb through pages is also lost.
27. His personal goal was to put 'his thumb print' on a program of changes.
28. I'm just going to be hanging around twiddling my thumbs.
29. He thumbed through a couple of pages, feigning just a slight interest.
30. Their proposals were given the thumbs down.
31. With his thumb up, he expressed his thank to me repeatedly.
32. Are you fast at writing the messages with your thumb?
33. Pinch the nostrils together between your thumb and finger to stop the bleeding.
34. The financial markets have given the thumbs up to the new policy.
35. He saw her jab her thumb on a red button – a panic button.
36. Stop sucking your thumb!
37. They might suck their thumb, seek out a blanket or so on.
38. The boy sucked his thumb and stared at Hebburn with huge, round eyes.
39. She still sucks her thumb when she's worried.
40. Does the new housing stick out like a sore thumb or blend into its surroundings?
41. In Japan a European stands out like a sore thumb.
42. It will hurt people differ to the extent to watch me slam my thumb with a hammer.
43. She bit the tip of her left thumb, not looking at me.
44. Hold the material between finger and thumb.
45. Goldstone flipped through the pages and stabbed his thumb at the paragraph he was looking for.
46. She thumbed off the safety catch of her pistol.
47. Miss Finkelstein will put a dressing on your thumb.
48. Her thumbs were hooked into the pockets of her jeans.
49. The company just thumbs its nose at the legislation on pollution.
50. He had the drawer open and was thumbing through the files.
51. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.
52. The prospect of waiting around just twiddling his thumbs was appalling.
53. It looks like it's thumbs up for their latest album.