Sentence examples for thumb saying from inspiring English sources

And then, Aldridge decided to put off the surgery on the torn ligament on his left thumb, saying "we are having a good season and I want to keep it going".

When Mr. Linder asked what it was, the broker acted out the shooting in the street by cocking a finger behind his ear and dropping his thumb, saying: "He steals stone.

A witness said he later saw a man, believed to be Detective Carrano, sitting on the sidewalk outside the building and "shaking and motioning with his thumb saying, 'He's inside, shot.' " The witness said that he had a view of the lobby.

A rule of thumb says there is 2% "technology creep" a year.

"He would have stuck out like a sore thumb," said Detective Jose Santiago, who is investigating the case.

"My granddad lost all his fingers off his left hand, but not his thumb," said Linda Spears, Leon's wife.

A common rule of thumb says one should keep enough cash for 6 to 12 months of expenses.

As a rule of thumb, say linguists, a minority language will die out if it is spoken by fewer than 70% of the population.

The rule of thumb says that a car loses at least 10 percent of its value the moment it leaves the dealership.

"We think it was about the size of a thumb," said Adam Maloof, a geoscientist at Princeton and the study's lead author.

"It stood out like a sore thumb," said Mr. Paullin, 61, noting that the town is built almost uniformly of Spanish Colonial Revival homes.