Sentence examples for having a finger from inspiring English sources

In movies and popular culture, the president is depicted as having a finger on the button.

The penalty, he said, was having a finger, an ear or your nose lopped off.

Drug barons are carving out fiefs, and political parties are commonly described as having a finger in all of it.

"Having a finger on our past is important," says the Bessie Ellen's skipper and owner, Nikki Alford.

In April, Mr. Dimon, who prides himself on having a finger on the pulse of risk at the bank, dismissed concerns about the trading.

The film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel set mostly in Packer's limousine, concerns a financial whiz-kid who is either having sex, having a finger inserted into his bottom (an on-the-move prostate exam), engaging in lengthy overblown monologues, losing vast sums of money, dodging an assassin, seeking a haircut, or all of the above.

Q-R-US has a finger in many pots.

Every arm of government seems to have had a finger in the pie.

RBS alone had a finger in every pie chart (it is actually a Venn diagram).

"There was a young man who came in who had a finger almost entirely amputated.

In no time at all, each girl had a finger bowl and suds.