Sentence examples for by thumb from inspiring English sources

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The point is guided by thumb and forefinger.

Cars are mostly unnecessary: everyone from farmhands to restaurant workers gets around by thumb.

In these situations, microbiological confirmation by thumb prick is a relatively low-invasive method that is simple to carry out.

Within the hand the indication for compound VBGs is dominated by thumb reconstruction (skin and bone grafts).

Its address book holds 250 names, but you have to type them in by hand (or by thumb).

Some encyclopaedias devote each volume to one letter of the alphabet or indicate the division between letters by thumb-indexing.

There was also a portrait that you took of Neil Young, which was on the bulletin board next to the fridge of his house, with the eyes punched out by thumb-tacks, courtesy of his then-wife Susan.

My main-course boiled beef and carrots was a tranche of salt-beef, left in its cooking liquid for hours to the point of disintegration, accompanied by thumb-size lumps of potato, carrot and turnip.

By Vajra Kilgour The New Yorker, February 4 , 1991P. 24 Talk story about attending a party for"Harvey Wang's New York", a collection of 50 glossy black and white photographs, accompanied by thumb-nail descriptions of New Yorkers who have unusual, outmoded occupations.

Instead, a thumbs-down view will soon be counteracted by thumbs up from other readers.