Sentence examples for thumbing forward from inspiring English sources

– may be forgiven for thumbing forward, flummoxed.

Unesco world heritage jewel it may be, but there are only so many of Krakow's baroque churches, gargoyles and ornate altarpieces that you can soak up in one weekend, so the next day we decided to thumb forward in the history books and pay a visit to Nowa Huta, the Soviet showcase suburb built after the second world war to house the city's steelworkers.

I don't like having to reach my thumb forward to get another button, so placing them above and below where your thumb rests works out perfectly.

I can just imagine reaching my thumb forward to hit that front button and accidentally rolling the wheel, which as you can imagine may have a million different consequences.

Snap your thumb forward rapidly, launching the card.

Place your thumb forward slightly, in the fleshy area just below that branch.

Pull thumb forward and cover the tape with you finger(s).

Spin the egg using a 'clicking' movement (push thumb forward whilst drawing the middle finger back).

Flick your thumb forward and simultaneously jerk the knife down toward the ground, stopping the downward motion very abruptly, like a cracking a whip.

We told her death with dandelions: holding tight to the top of the stem, you would chant, "Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off like … this!" On the final word you'd flick forward your thumb and decapitate the golden flower.

Use the same relaxed but firm, thumb-forward grip described in the forward-cast method.