Sentence examples for finger on something from inspiring English sources

But in a way that was a little hard to put one's finger on, something felt a little off.

Thus, he puts his finger on something.

But everyone agreed he had put his finger on something.

"Murakami puts his finger on something which we all feel," says McBurney.

Ethanol will not replace oil anytime soon, but Mr Bush nevertheless has put his finger on something big.

"It's hard to put a finger on something, like hydrological restoration, you can do to preserve them," Dr. Armentano said.

Something is always happening in these pictures that, as a stranger looking in on them as if into a neighbor's window, you can't quite put your finger on -- something alarming or oppressive or funny or wicked or tender, or some combination of the above.

The prose feels like the text was automatically translated by a computer: one can't quite put a finger on it, but something is off.

You were buds with Dave back in high school, but something went way wrong over the years and you just can't put your finger on what that "something" is.

I don't know what it was, I couldn't put my finger on it, but something about Jes reminded me straight-away of Katie Hepburn.

We can't quite put our finger on it, but something about Reddit user seantwopointone's ramen burger seems slightly off.