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Sentence Examples
The coleoptile could then be removed by carefully pulling it away from the kernel between the thumb and the forefinger.
You lift a rotting log with one hand and pry out juicy grubs with your other forefinger.
He put one hand to his chin and rubbed the thumb and forefinger back and forth along his jawline, stroking an absent beard.
As we walked, I saw many men greeting or saluting us by kissing her forefinger and bringing it to their forehead.
I snatched it between thumb and forefinger, balled it into a tight dot, threw it to the. floor.
Twirl the thaumatrope by rolling the string between thumb and forefinger of each hand as fast as you can.
The easiest way to swirl is to rest the base of the glass on a table, hold the stem between thumb and forefinger, and gently rotate the wrist.
He fishes into a battered black holdall, pulls out the manifesto and triumphantly taps his forefinger on the table.
For an instant, his painted, red-nailed forefinger catches the light as it strikes middle C on his old, battered harmonium.
His fingers were laden with diamond rings, and a gold signet ring was on his left forefinger, bearing the King's seal.
Was it her simper, or her settled indifference to ideas, or the gaudy ring she wore on her right forefinger and twisted incessantly?
The creature stabbed at the piece of armour with a forefinger as if it were trying to punch holes in it.
He walked away from her, swinging the necklace around his forefinger, grinning cold-heartedly, narrowing his eyes in a silent but deadly glare.
I try again, pressing harder, but the back of the knife handle indents my forefinger much more readily than the cutting edge scores the rock.
As Egewe watched, she pinched her lips with her thumb and forefinger, nervously stroking the thin skin of her lips.
She had placed her forefinger on the placket of his buttondown shirt and had slipped it between the top two buttons.
He gently took her chin between his forefinger and his thumb and raised it so she could look him in the eyes.
If I put my hand really close to my face, I can squish the land between my forefinger and my thumb.
They touch the knuckle of the forefinger on their right hand to their foreheads in salute.
She looked down at her left hand, the forefinger and thumb tattooed with gold, in a design much like a Signature.
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For example, he cannot oppose his right forefinger and thumb and can only, with difficulty, touch his mouth with his hand.
I pointed a forefinger to my forehead, then drew my finger across my lips, as he had.
Slowly they held their hands out but only with their forefinger and thumb extended.
When the pillow is kneaded a little, the thumb and forefinger will come right together if it's kapok.
Some archers allow the arrow to rest on the top of their forefinger, some prefer the rest.
Observation has shown that pinches are taken either with the tips of thumb and two fingers or between the ball of the thumb and top knuckle of the forefinger.
When she reached out for her change and turned to walk away, the shopkeeper held on to the gold coins between his thumb and forefinger and cupped a hand to his ear.
It was a tough callous and he pressed a little too hard when, zip, the extremely sharp Barlow knife cut right through the connecting skin between his thumb and the forefinger.
To shoot correctly you held the marble between the thumb and forefinger and by flicking the thumb you propelled the alley forward, at great speed.
You turned the white queen between your blunt-nailed thumb and forefinger, and moved her around the board while you waited for what they would say.
He holds up his hand, the little finger and the forefinger extended.
Nick held his thumb and forefinger apart about a half an inch.
Thumb and forefinger pressed together, as if to urge the top on, the boy dreams awhile before settling down to the books and the inkstand he has pushed to one side.
The examiner then palpated the thyroid area with his right forefinger.
She rubbed her forefinger and thumb together and shook her head.
The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.
With her biggest marble, a Bumboozer, poised like a bomb between her thumb and forefinger, she closed one eye and took a steadying breath.
A few days before, I snicked my forefinger with the curved banana knife at the store, and a callusy scab toughened the ball of my fingertip.
With the palp of a forefinger he squeezed moisture from his wiry blond eyebrows.
Units included fingers, the distance from thumb to forefinger, palms, cubits and wingspans.
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Won Li's attentions moved to the weblike purlicue between my thumb and forefinger.
The repair actually involved a slight rolling of the forefinger against the thumb.
With his thumb and forefinger he lifted one spaghetto at a time and dunked it into the bowl of sauce before eating it.
Pull apart his eyelids with your thumb and forefinger and examine the pocket between the bottom of the eyeball and the lower eyelid.
He stretches out his arm and then rubs his thumb and forefinger together as if he is playing the world's smallest violin for the world's largest whiner. How rude is that?
Mowgli was sitting cross-legged, and explaining things with his forefinger in his usual way, when Bagheera put out a paddy paw and pulled him over backwards into the water.
A big man wearing an agbada with gold thread embroidery at the neck and sleeves came up to him holding a glass of champagne between his thumb and forefinger.
Examples from Classical Literature
As the hand moves forward the spear is released by uplifting the forefinger, and the woomera remains in the hand.
This atrophies if the main mass is removed, and the fossa of Rosenmller can be cleared out with the forefinger.
He turned at the open window, held out a long forefinger, and uttered his countervailing faith.
To be crushed, as it were, under the tip of a forefinger was an unpleasant experience.
Doctor taps Mr. dibble on the eyebrow with his forefinger, and away they go.
And Andy knew that he had the life of a man under the command of his forefinger.
As he spoke, he stroked the bridge of his hawklike nose with his bent forefinger.
With thumb and forefinger I could have spanned the distance between Soissons and Laon.
It was a characteristic hand, broad, with spatulate fingernails and a black star on the fleshy ball between forefinger and thumb.
Mary, who faced him across the table in the sun parlor, tapped a forefinger on the writing-pad and looked him in the eye.
And at each utterance of the pronoun he lunged with his forefinger in the direction of his son.
And Mrs. Perkins finished her speech with the largest pinch of maccaboy she could possibly hold between her thumb and forefinger.
As I titillated the top of my bald head with my forefinger, I plainly perceived that the time had come for me to marry.
One particle which had adhered to his thumb he removed with his forefinger.
The standard form of handle consists of a ring for the forefinger and above it a kind of palmette for the thumb.
Being numbered ten, its Hebrew letter is yod, the hieroglyphic meaning of which is the forefinger extended as a sign of command.
Then all at once, in a riot that afterwards seemed to her phantasmagoric, the policeman raised a forefinger in salute.
And with a pirouette she fluttered yet further away, the bit of paper held daintily and aloft between forefinger and thumb.
Taking some of the pomade on his forefinger, he smeared it around his left eye.
The missing forefinger to the hand of the potto would appear at first sight to have been lost by some such mishap.
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Bill roached it up with a turn of the forefinger, 148 using the back of it, which was rough, like a corn-cob.
The commodore smiled and tapped his frontal bone with his forefinger.
Only the weight of the forefinger was needed to spring the hair-trigger.
I leaned over Joe, and, with the aid of my forefinger, read him the whole letter.
She lifted a tress on her forefinger and smoothed it against the sunlight.
Instead of answering, he stood, after one startled glance at her, looking intently at the knuckle of his forefinger.
I remember,' said the gentleman, striking his nose with the knuckle of his forefinger as a chastening for his forgetfulness.
He sighed, and taking up his cutty, he laid his forefinger over it.
He stood before Newman a moment, breathing quickly and softly, and shaking his forefinger curtly as his host pointed to a chair.
A young Savoyard, eighteen years old, had had his forefinger shot off.
And he tapped the veneered top of the secretaire with his forefinger.
He advanced close to the selectman, waggling admonitory forefinger.
Lady Anselman stood in the centre of the lounge at the Ritz Hotel and with a delicately-poised forefinger counted her guests.
His threatening forefinger seemed already to be pointing out the keeper of Box Five to the absent magistrates.
The politician solemnly pointed downwards with his forefinger.
He strode across the room and shook his forefinger in his victim's face.
With upraised forefinger and slanting head, he stood listening.
With her forefinger she idly traced some hieroglyphics on her lap.
Upon which his host advanced, indicting him with a long white forefinger.
The excited man breathed into his face, peered into his eyes, pounded upon his chest with a shaking forefinger, demanded, compelled attention.
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He wheeled on his heels, aiming a jabbing forefinger at this man and that.
With his knurly forefinger at his puckered forehead he sat and pondered.
Nicotine stain on right forefinger, extending to middle of second phalanx.
As he spoke, he laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot.
You take my tip, though,' he added, wagging an admonitory forefinger.
Then he silently pointed with his lean forefinger at the open page of the large notebook.
Barkis solemnly made a sign to me with his forefinger to come under an archway.
The forefinger must then be used to distinguish the rings of the trachea.
At length, assuming a singular air of authority, Pearl stretched out her hand, with the small forefinger extended, and pointing evidently towards her mother's breast.
The writing on the wall was done with a man's forefinger dipped in blood.
Whether moved only by her ordinary freakishness, or because an evil spirit prompted her, she put up her small forefinger and touched the scarlet letter.
When his forefinger swept across my features, in laying out the borders of those parallel bands which were to encircle my countenance, the flesh fairly crawled upon my bones.
In due course the superintendent stood up in front of the pulpit, with a closed hymn-book in his hand and his forefinger inserted between its leaves, and commanded attention.
And at this there came suddenly a lowering shadow over his face, and he tightened his grasp upon my hand and raised a forefinger threateningly before my eyes.
She wound her forefinger in his yellow fleece and pulled it, watching him.
March, looking at the plump little hand, with the band of sky-blue stones on the forefinger, and the quaint guard formed of two tiny golden hands clasped together.
Mr Bradley Headstone, highly certificated stipendiary schoolmaster, drew his right forefinger through one of the buttonholes of the boy's coat, and looked at it attentively.
Her gloves were greyish and were worn through at the right forefinger.
Come into the happy little cottage, Padrona,' returned Mr Baptist, imparting great stealthiness to his flurried back-handed shake of his right forefinger.
And taking up the hand which lay on the arm of his chair, he pointed to the roughened forefinger, a burn on the back, and two or three little hard spots on the palm.
