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"run a finger over" is a correct and usable phrasing in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe someone gently tracing a surface with a finger, like if you said, "He ran a finger over the ancient stone as he admired its intricate carvings."
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The emboldened run a finger over a shiny fender or ask for an autograph.
Peggy was back in the Square for the first time since 2013, although she only stuck around long enough to offer Dot some religious guidance, and run a finger over the dust which had accumulated on the Old Vic's bar.
(What in the hell would your S.A.T.s be if you had to take them today?) You return to the dictionary shelf and, very slowly, run a finger over the spines.
Then you run a finger over the pad, traveling over the entire surface with an even touch.
It's barely noticeable, requiring you to run a finger over the surface, but a bump's a bump, I guess.
He would pick up and sniff the melon, then run a finger over a peach's down, alert for bruises.
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He ran a finger over the glossy surface.
Maybe that's why my lips are always chapped, he thinks, running a finger over them.
"She's got everything that she wants," Ms. Parker said, running a finger over her tanned, tropical Lady.
With the steely squint of an archaeologist on a dig, she ran a finger over a flower-shaped lace design sewn onto the skirt of the dress.
"My mother has pain," he said, running a finger over the bumps on his forearm as if they were nothing more than a novelty.
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