Sentence examples for from thumbing from inspiring English sources

But the most eloquent portrait of lively evenings in the Buckley apartment comes from thumbing through the guest books.

The perils do not stop desperate people from thumbing rides in a region where public transportation is practically nonexistent.

But since these places are situated so randomly, checking beforehand on the Internet will save you from thumbing through a stack of phone books.

QUESTION FROM MARK AVERELL: Hi Hendrik — I want to first thank you for all the laughs and insights I've been getting from thumbing through your "Politics: Observations & Arguments"…great stuff!

Eli Czaplinsky, the founder of Zip's, a street tough who may have been involved with the crime boss Lepke Buchalter, gets his inspiration for Little Sammies from thumbing obsessively through "Little Black Sambo" while on the lam.

On a warm December afternoon, taking a break from thumbing his nose at Donald Trump – just two days ago he was picketing outside of Trump Tower with a sign that read "We are all Muslim" – Moore, wearing a camouflage Detroit Tigers baseball cap, sits in an exposed-brick conference room of the Manhattan offices of his publicists.

They include offsides, crease violations, pushing from the rear, thumbing, and warding off.

Or that iPhone owners are more likely to suffer from thumb-stress-induced depression?

McKelvin is out indefinitely, and Whitner is recovering from thumb surgery Monday.

He drums the restaurant table, rolling from thumb to palm to finger.

That puts the burden on Travis Zajac, Ilya Kovalchuk and Adam Henrique, when he returns next month from thumb surgery.