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.
A bookshelf displays an array of well-thumbed cookbooks, and the kettle bubbles on the hob.
I thumbed a lift into town.
In our own kids' bookshelves, they're the most battered, thumbed and falling-apart books, so often have they been read.
I've managed to confect vague sympathy, but can't help feeling the snub would be put into perspective if female athletes would only turn to their well-thumbed copies of classical comedy. Women should be happy they have failed the Sports Personality test | Marina Hyde
Then he moved to crates that held the loose photos and thumbed through each one. Survivors Seek Japan's Past, in Photos
When I asked where the head was, a crewmember thumbed at the lee side of the boat.
Or the works of Charles Dickens sandwiched between a well-thumbed leather-bound edition of the Romantic poets and three volumes of philosophy.
Nakamura fished a cell phone from his pants pocket, and the device chirped as he thumbed the two-way communication button.
Probably many of these _incognita_ and _rarissima_ perished in the great fire of London; others again met their fate solely through their own popularity, being 'thumbed' to pieces. The Book-Hunter at Home
The doorman thumbed the button and steel doors rang and parted open.
On the shelf was a small selection of callously thumbed books.
He withdrew his hand and stared at it thoughtfully, then he reached into his hip pocket for a well-thumbed guide-book. SANDS OF TIME
Jonah desperately thumbed the lighter's switch one last time, and he was rewarded with a sudden flare of light.
I casually thumbed through - guys with bright neon trunks, guys with washboard stomachs, guys with fetishes and guys with other guys adorned the glossy pages.
While it was cycling I opened my left wing and thumbed the alula control -- I had noticed a tendency to sideslip the last time I was airborne. The Past Through Tomorrow
We thumbed a lift to London.
I listen to her enthusiastic praise, and then magnanimously sign her well-thumbed copy of my novel. LOVE YOU MADLY
No sooner have you thumbed the remote control, than legions of sherry-sodden aunts, bickering uncles and brattish weans are filing out of your living room.
Leaving his boyhood club was like closing the last page on a well-thumbed book.
There is the unique Glasgow collection, which includes books, maps, newspapers, illustrations, photographs, manuscripts and ephemera from all periods of the city's history, and the well-thumbed family archives.
The dictionary is a look at the origins of terms that your sons and daughters are probably using right now as they sit before their TVs and monitors, controllers in thumbed hand.
He quickly thumbed the bee's wax out of his ears and tossed it on the ground.
We stood by the roadside and thumbed a lift.
He sighed audibly in the empty shop and thumbed at a dog-eared corner.
I casually thumbed through - guys with bright neon trunks, guys with washboard stomachs, guys with fetishes and guys with other guys adorned the glossy pages.
From her cellphone, she thumbed: "Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person hashheblowsalot. Emma Sullivan Apology: Kansas High School Student Not Sorry About Sam Brownback Tweet
As an impecunious student, I rashly thumbed a ride from an advertising executive who went for the sound barrier while tailgating the cars in front and playing chicken with oncoming lorries.
Debbie smirked at him and thumbed towards herself.
Gideon thumbed the button on the edge of the microphone. Gideon’s war
The following year I was keen to get hold of the latest version of the book that had become a well thumbed favourite.
I do so love my books, so much so that I couldn't bring myself to read books that had been thumbed a thousand times over.
He did not use it to chase his assailant away, but without a word thumbed off the safety and shot the would-be thief dead in the head. Welcome to the Green Zone
As he spun he twirled his pistols and thumbed a button that extended prongs from the handles.
Bony fingers fumbled across Anne's shoulders, thumbed her clavicle, seemed to be searching for something. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Merlin thumbed the call switch and leaned forward.
Printed miscellanies were not held in careful reverence - witness the torn pages, the splashes of ink, the thumbed texts.
Some are so well thumbed that the tattered pages look ready to crumble.
This will predict your future life for you, much better than the fortuneteller with a turban and a well thumbed set of Tarot cards.
For example, the distributional tables outlining the impact of the GST were the most 'thumbed' part of the documentation, certainly by those Treasury officers answering phone queries. Peter Martin
He handed her the papers, and she thumbed through them. Rogue Oracle
The world will be a hell of a lot better without thumbed humans running around destroying everything.
I thumbed the button on my cell phone which bore the symbol of a green handset.
As Captain Taylor thumbed the off button on his phone, a Mohanese soldier, an immaculately groomed adjutant whose coat dripped with gold braid, opened the massive teak door and said, “Captain, the general can spare five minutes for you.” Gideon’s war
I must be getting addled, he thought, as he thumbed through the book. THE SOUND OF MURDER
To my horror I realised that the roof of the dog's mouth was against the thumbed side of my hand and the business end of the fang was protruding past the little finger side of my fist.
Uninterested, I thumbed through the seemly ancient pages until a title procured my attention. Archive 2009-06-01
She thumbed the safety back into the ‘on’ position.
I thumbed the button on my cell phone which bore the symbol of a green handset.
Its wrong, though, to hit an airport without an airport novel, one of those well-thumbed paperbacks bankrupt of literary merit.
It may interest you to know that a boy answering Rory's description thumbed a ride to Howth.
Years later I foolishly sold off my collection of ratty, well thumbed copies.
It also purveyed the well-thumbed Roman myths: that everyone in the ancient world was a backstabbing, double-dealing, amoral schemer, and that none of them could muster the self-control of a priapic ferret or the wisdom of a brick.
This old man wears a hat, a thumbed and napless and yet an obdurate hat, which has never adapted itself to the shape of his poor head. Little Dorrit
Well-thumbed magazine pictures of body-builders cling to the wall.
Use your thumbs (preferably) or the removal tool (if you're weak thumbed!).
At the back of the church a great stone crusader sat up on his tomb and, with much rasping of stone, thumbed his nose at the vicar. CHARMED LIFE
She went into her home office, thumbed through Science and Health, and began reading a section. The Sacred Promise
The smell and feel of them but books that have been thumbed through by hundreds and gone yellowy don't have quite the same appeal.
As one laved one's chest one could conjure up images of bowler hats on the coat rack, well-thumbed Police Gazettes, shoe polish and cigars.
He thumbed the button, gratified when the arm of blue-white light appeared in front of him, illuminating Kate as she floated down to the same depth. Gideon’s war
I, who looked upon begging as a delightful whimsicality, thumbed myself over into a true son of Mrs. Grundy, burdened with all her bourgeois morality. Confession
A well-thumbed Bible is always open on his desk in Edmonton's Parliament Building.
well-thumbed pages of the dictionary
At the end of his life he had become, on his own ground, as mellow as he was rich; he combined consummate shrewdness with the disposition superficially to fraternise, and his “social position,” on which he had never wasted a care, had the firm perfection of an unthumbed fruit. The Portrait of a Lady
In our own kids' bookshelves, they're the most battered, thumbed and falling-apart books, so often have they been read.
When he thumbed the power switch woven into the back, the opaque epidermoid sprang to life. The Mocking Program
She had thumbed through Central America with another girl.
He thumbed the buttons hard a couple of times, then pushed it aside.
LisBETH thumbed through the school catalog while her feet were pumiced. Cupcake
The door slid aside when he thumbed a square button beside the panel, but the lights did not come on automatically as they had in the corridor.
I pulled it down and thumbed the light button but I couldn't see from my facemask to the gauge, all I saw is a lit up flecky-brownish mess in the blackness and a smeared turquoise square, too smeared to see what was necessary just like the turquoise pool in the desert. Rodeo Days
In a boneheaded error straight out of an Evelyn Waugh novel, a high-level muckymuck at the Times must have barked, "Get me Billy Crystal for the Op-Ed page!" and some poor schnook thumbed through a rolodex and called The Wrong Guy. Hullabaloo
When I thumbed through his journal at the shop today I had the strong feeling that he never intended for these thoughts to be publicised.
There he thumbed his mustache and stood amused in the company of an eager complainant, a man loud with the measliest grievance, pink-eyed and spitting. Underworld
As any current observer of demolition will tell you, grapples and thumbed buckets are pervasive for cleanup work.
I probably would have just thumbed through the pages, looked up the price, and placed it with a pile of other books waiting their turn to be shelved.
She thumbed off the safety catch of her pistol.
He leaned forward and thumbed the intercom button on the computer terminal.
Between a book on chemotherapy and another on neurophysiological disorders, she came upon an old, well-thumbed prayer book. GRACE
He thumbed through the report

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