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How to use thimble in a sentence

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I used a large thimble for the flap cord part, nylon cord for the line, and ended up just tying the cord around the side wire with a slip knot.
Sixty bee stomachfuls of honey are needed to fill one thimble full of honey.
This time, it had the shape of a trapezoid on four faces, making it look like a thimble with four right angles.
Of course since I was stitching after so long I drew blood and then I realized that I had forgotten all about the thimble once again.
Then she would don a thimble, put a dint in the cookie, and fill it with jam.
The convex top is impressed with diamond patterning and is brazed to the body of the thimble.
With a reminder to use her thimble when she dealt with needles, Jemimah left.
In Kendal, a debate is going on as to the real name of the orange rubber thimble used by the counters to protect their index fingers.
The tip of the second finger curls in toward the ball of the thumb until it is under the mouth of the thimble.
Mary was sitting on the bed, tapping her foot and humming a tune as she set her needles, thimble, and thread into a sack.
In front of each god was a miniature steel plate and a tumbler the size of a large thimble.
In a roof exit installation, the ceiling support box supplied with the manufactured chimney acts as a thimble.
You must use a wall thimble when installing a chimney connector through a combustible wall to the chimney.
What he knows about any part of the world would not fill a thimble.
In the palm of Clovis's hand, the cupcake looked the size of a thimble.
In Mary Anne's next letter, dated ix February 1880, her only reference to her job was that her employer had given her a silver thimble for Christmas.
A dish called colcannon, made from cabbage, potatoes, and milk, was traditionally served on Halloween with a ring, coin, thimble, and button inserted into it.
Traditional sewing equipment consisted of an ulu, needle and awl, thimble and thimble-guard, and a needlecase.
Seamstress or tailor: you can see spools of thread, a pair of scissors, a thimble and some pins in a pincushion.
But again, local opinion has been pushing for more than the thimble of democracy that Mr Tung and his supporters prefer for next year.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I felt a vague awe, such as I imagine strikes a man at sight of a rose-lined parasol, or a thimble laid on a pile of stitchery.
Her mother opened it and brought out a thimble, a bootlace, five buttons, one sixpenny piece and a penny.
I have lost my thimble, and I've broken my china cup, so perhaps you have brought me one.
However, no wonder, as you had never heard of the thimble and pea game, but I will tell you.
Uncle abris once more grew pale, and retreating into the parlour, came out with a glass about as large as a thimble.
I remember that they had one ditty bag between them, and they had a woman's thimble in it.
The black raspberry, which we called thimble berry, was found along the stone walls, but was not abundant.
Sarah was married to the very silversmith who had engraven our names on the thimble!
In fitting breechings, a thimble is to be spliced into one end, the strands stuck through twice, and marled down.
A type of retractable thimble or presser foot was used to hold the fabric down as required.
You're the only one that's brought their thimble, I'll be bound.
The eggs are smooth, coffee-coloured and shaped like a thimble.
I suppose she never had a thimble on her finger in her life, but she'll know the feelin' o' one before she's ben here many days.
In blocks, confines the hook and thimble in the strop home to the scores.
The woman took the thimble and examined it, weighed it, and submitted its metal to the test of the touchstone.
She hit his head a thump with her thimble as we dodged by, and he let on to be whimpering as we struck for the stairs.
It's white, and has a big bunch o' grapes in the centre, quilted by a thimble top.
Madame Ratignolle folded her sewing, placing thimble, scissors, and thread all neatly together in the roll, which she pinned securely.
Where's my ink-bottle, and where's my thimble, and where's my little spoon?
Better not offend a fairy, even though no higher than a thimble!
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