Sentence examples for thimble for from inspiring English sources

In 1980 he was awarded a Golden Thimble for a collection centred on a Russian Czar theme.

Better to chase fireflies with a thimble, for the true Romney is a phantom — lost long ago to reinventions and calculations.

Chloroform/methanol (2 1, v/ v) was allowed to reflux over the thimble for 3 or 16 h (depending on the ease of lipid extraction) at a siphon rate of 6 8 times per hour.

Use a thimble for pushing the needle.

It will be much like a thimble for your finger, but instead, designed to fit your thumb.

Weld the blade to the coupling (which will be the thimble for attaching the handle), then clean the weld and look at the position of the blade in relation to it to make sure it is straight.

Beer bottles were scattered on a coffee table, along with a stack of thimbles for playing washboard.

The name on the label is unlikely to belong to the hand at the loom.Sara Lee, a Chicago-based multinational that sells both cakes and underwear, as well as soap and shoe polish, is the latest American firm to announce that it will be swapping its toques and thimbles for suits and cellphones.

It is a little bit harder to knit with plastic, as it doesn't slide over the needles as smoothly - if only they'd invented thimbles for knitting with.

Most people are trying to fill that bath up with a container the size of a thimble, whereas for highly trained athletes like Wiggins, who have bigger hearts, it is like using a bucket.

Gastown is the only nightlife destination in the world where you'll pay $25 for a thimble of cocktail and then get mugged on a piss-reeking sidewalk right outside.