Sentence examples for when thumbing through from inspiring English sources

When thumbing through old hymnals proved fruitless, I headed for the reference room of the public library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

I thought of you when, thumbing through YouTube videos, I stumbled upon a proposal video that stands above all others, aptly titled "Kingdom Proposal".

Mrs. Doyle was unaware of the poster's existence until 1982, when, while thumbing through a magazine, she saw a photograph of it and recognized herself.

I didn't see many duds when I was thumbing through the book.

But that's not possible when you're thumbing through your feed on a bus.

When he thumbed through this week's stories from San Francisco, it stopped his leisurely breakfast.

What prompted the family to get him to a doctor was when they thumbed through his checkbook, often a giveaway.

It's a gorgeous testament to the terrific bar in New York; when I thumbed through it, I immediately longed to go back there.

His appetite was whetted as a child in Suffolk, England, when he thumbed through his aunt's subscription to the Saturday Evening Post.

The first comes in 1949 when, standing on Madison Avenue, thumbing through a copy of her beloved Saturday Review of Literature, Helene spots an advertisement for Marks & Co., Antiquarian Booksellers.

"Ops" is too brain-dead to play the incognito war criminal segment for comedy, although when Will is seen thumbing through the pages of a newspaper called USA Daily, the picture has inadvertently tumbled down a Mad magazine wormhole.