Sentence examples for turned a thumb from inspiring English sources

He turned a thumb toward his stripes.

(At the same time, voters checked the presidential box for the nominee who said "corporations are people, my friend," and turned a thumb's down on the federal health care law's insurance mandate.

When she forcibly turns a thumbs-down gesture into a thumbs-up one, it seems too obvious an expression of the work's theme of psychological denial.

That drama involved a media circus, a QC's crisis of conscience, bitter recriminations and the verdict that turned on a thumb being misidentified as an actor's penis.

It's loaded with encryption options and even lets you turn a USB thumb drive or your iPod into a key for unlocking your drive.

Once he had the past under his thumb, he turned a control-freak eye to the future: he would colonize heaven.

These marks make a cheek turn, a thumb articulate with a wrist, a breast press against an arm, an eye fit into its socket, a doorway have depth or a mantle circle a head.

But it makes me think of a bigger point: We are turning into a thumbs-upmanship society, whether one is 24 or 44 or even the sum of those two ages.

Change the thumb turned down to a thumb press or a tap.

This study assessed whether two people with profound multiple disabilities and minimal motor behavior would be able to control environmental stimulation using thumb poke ability with a mouse wheel and a newly developed mouse driver (i.e., a new mouse driver replacing standard mouse driver, and turning a mouse into a precise thumb poke detector).

When asked about its recent performance, she frowned slightly and turned her thumb down.