Sentence examples for held her finger from inspiring English sources

Candy looked at Marjorie, who held her finger to her lips, and the two sat in rigid silence.

I was about to say hello to her, and ask what the heck she was doing behind the bush, when she held her finger up to her lips.

(When I asked Guo about the nomenklatura, she held her finger to her smile and said, "It's better not to discuss them").

There are cockroaches like that" — she held her fingers about three inches apart.

She held her fingers to his neck and said: 'He's gone.'" They had been best friends.

Then she held her fingers tightly together.

"I was this close," she told me in Vienna, holding her finger and thumb an inch apart.

My essay juxtaposed my memories of severe depression with Lucy's treatment for O.C.D., which on that day involved holding her finger above a piece of paper.

She'd stop in mid-conversation and hold her finger to her nose the way she always did when she was thinking hard.

Ms. Collette's way of dealing with panic on the way to the telecast -- she mimed holding her finger along one side of her nose -- had been yoga breathing, in one nostril and out the other.

We turn to the Daily Mail's advice column, MC'd by Bel Mooney, who proves her impeccable credentials for advising readers about their lives by that time-honoured method of advice columnists: holding her finger against her ear in her byline photo.