Sentence examples for thumb raised from inspiring English sources

hands interlocked, thumb raised Get them out, and don't let them in again.

The hand with the pinkie and thumb raised, and the three middle fingers curled in a signal that everything is all right belied Beljan's low-grade unease.

In the picture, a young man fanned a wad of British pounds, his thumb raised, while casually dragging on a cigarette.

During the official presentation, Wanted, wearing an Adidas tracksuit, brandished the gun like a young thug while Avakov draped an arm around his shoulders, his thumb raised in cheery defiance.

Touted as the incendiary finale to a decade of provocation, Gérard Mortier's last season at the Salzburg Festival is to date more a gentlemanly bow than a thumb raised to the nose.

She saw him each morning standing on the side of the road without his thumb raised, leading her to question whether he knew what gesture was required procure a ride.

When you want to stop siphoning gas, cover the long tube with your thumb, raise it above the level of gas in the engine, and remove your thumb.

Then he began to mug, very strangely, with pursed lips and thumbs raised, seemingly playing a pouting club character of some type.

Having examined the scene, which shows Cobb with both feet off the ground, the man extended his right thumb and raised his arm.

With its indented thumb hold, raised ring for holding a glass and partition ridges for church-and-state segregation of meat and potatoes, the plate, like all of Wright's enormously popular tablewares, linens and furnishings from the 1940's and 50's, had an agenda: to show Americans that life at home could be as easy and efficient as a new washer-dryer.

Thumb has raised $5.3 million in funding to date.