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lifted a finger
verb
Past of lift a finger
Exact(60)
No one lifted a finger.
World leaders have barely lifted a finger.
Favre never lifted a finger to help them.
"Aryan Warsaw hardly lifted a finger to help" the Jews, she wrote in her memoir.
Seeming pleased with himself, he lifted a finger and made an emphatic throat-slitting gesture.
Six-foot tall in her heels, she lifted a finger and prodded my swollen cheek.
The chief justice won his war -- and barely lifted a finger.
When hope declined, terror rose and no one lifted a finger to stop it.
Nobody at the BBC lifted a finger to stop him... they just stood by and watched it happen.
To the class's astonishment, he touched the amber liquid, lifted a finger to his mouth, and licked it.
When the bootleg Jack Black comedy ended, he lifted a finger, caressed my cheek, said he found me attractive.
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