thumbed

How To Use thumbed In A Sentence

• Bony fingers fumbled across Anne's shoulders, thumbed her clavicle, seemed to be searching for something. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
• It may interest you to know that a boy answering Rory's description thumbed a ride to Howth.
• Between a book on chemotherapy and another on neurophysiological disorders, she came upon an old, well-thumbed prayer book. GRACE
• Inside the booth, he secured the door with his foot and thumbed through the phone book.
• His cookbooks can be found, greasily thumbed, in many of the nation's kitchens.
• He has thumbed his nose at authority all his life.
• Miss or Mrs.) is being remarkably patient with his five-thumbed student, as yet again, I produce something that more resembles a slug dozing on a rice mattress, than the kind of epicurean masterpiece customers -- and celebrities -- pay top dollar for. Rolling Sushi With Nobu
• He leaned over and thumbed the remote beside the lamp.
• Tucked the small earplugs in, thumbed the Walkman 's start button, and closed his eyes, lying at ease, waiting to be counted. STONE CITY
• He carries a foldaway pine stool, a well-thumbed copy of yesterday's Evening Standard and a small frying pan in a crumpled polythene bag.