Sentence examples for my index of from inspiring English sources

The cover of the promotional copy of "My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge," Paul Guest's second collection of poems, asks "What do John Ashbery, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Mary Karr, Campbell McGrath, and Mark Strand have in common?" The answer, inside: "They all admire Paul Guest's new book of poems".

You can read my responses and advice to such questions in my index of columns.

There were grander figurines on display, but the boar was so full of character and carved to the finest detail – despite its tiny size, perhaps a third of my index finger – that one could almost imagine it running out of the glass case.

'Precious' meant, 'so positively hideous, I could produce vomit this instant and without the aid of my index finger'.

At one point, I have to keep very still, and a purple butterfly drifts down and perches on the tip of my index finger.

These were my mid-teen years, when the hours I spent in my bedroom, tonging, could be marked off in bars of brown, glassy, melted nylon carpet and pale yellow scorches on the pad of my index finger.

This is perhaps due to the diminutive size of the flower's blossoms ("I could fit two or three flowers right on the tip of my index finger," Simun said) and to the fact that it blooms for only a few hours, just after dawn, on one day every year.

Yet a quick perusal of my index reveals 50 pages devoted to explaining that Sulzberger's anti-Zionism arose from his involvement with Reform Judaism, including an entire chapter on Sulzberger's alliance with the Reform rabbis who founded the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism.

I actually started having to scroll with my middle finger instead of my index because it felt like it was going to vibrate my fingernail right off if I kept on the way I was going.

I can watch YouTube music videos on the Elliptical, upon the request of my index finger.

"When I later told her Zun Ke Lai came out on top of my index, she was totally unimpressed.