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How to use well-thumbed in a sentence

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A bookshelf displays an array of well-thumbed cookbooks, and the kettle bubbles on the hob.
All the well-thumbed books are coded and their numbers recorded in the cards which pack the specially designed drawers of the little desk.
I had a well-thumbed copy of the Female Eunuch, given to me by my very socially aware sister.
He carries a foldaway pine stool, a well-thumbed copy of yesterday's Evening Standard and a small frying pan in a crumpled polythene bag.
It's dotted with low glass tables, Eastern religious icons and some well-thumbed books on astrology.
Leaving his boyhood club was like closing the last page on a well-thumbed book.
As one laved one's chest one could conjure up images of bowler hats on the coat rack, well-thumbed Police Gazettes, shoe polish and cigars.
He pulled out a well-thumbed dictionary and began searching for a translation.
His well-thumbed copy of Herodotus, with its intriguing mementos inside, underscores the historic context.
He is fond of waving aloft his well-thumbed copy of the UN charter.
Between the dust covers of our favorite volumes are well-thumbed verses, quotations and simple lines that bring us peace and, sometimes, the needed release of tears.
He reached into a deep pocket of his white coat and produced not a well-thumbed handbook but his iPhone.
He opens the briefcase to reveal hundreds of well-thumbed sheets of paper filled with typewritten words.
Bob still has the book, well-thumbed and well-preserved.
Goat's scant and apocryphal biography is already well-thumbed.
Simon rummaged around and came out with a well-thumbed paperback.
Examples from Classical Literature
Hark back to your well-thumbed Lavengro and you will find, if you do not remember, his reasons.
Sometimes in winter when he did not have to go to sea he read one of the well-thumbed volumes by the aid of a tallow dip.
He produced a well-thumbed volume from his pocket, and, opening it, laid it upon his knee.
Thus, after a search of many weeks, the Western bibliopole succeeded in obtaining a well-thumbed specimen of the precious work.
It opened at a well-thumbed spot and she tore a leaf from the binding.
Gaspare ran for the candles while Salvatore got the cards, well-thumbed and dirty.
Walter Scott is there, and rows of well-thumbed volumes of Henty.
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