Example sentences for: fingers

How can you use “fingers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The young gods swivel, unwind, suspend themselves in air, the orange orb that spins from their fingers as splendid for an instant as the sun, until it drops--swish!

  • Instead of jabbing fingers over Monica's dress, for example, they should discuss the fundamentals of sexual harassment law.

  • According to the original form of the tale, before the battle of Agincourt, immortalized in Shakespeare's Henry V, the French taunted the English longbowmen by waving two fingers at them, saying that those fingers (used to pull back the bowstring) could never defeat the mighty French.

  • One rapidly runs out of hands and must resort to fingers and toes, for after years of laboriously categorizing these languages, the number of different main branches (called families and subfamilies) came to about ten.

  • Or, wiggling your fingers by letting the motive force propagate directly from your will to the digits, you suddenly notice the real cause of the action is quite elsewhere, in tendons rippling beneath the skin way up at the elbow--a bit of mechanical trumpery that gives the lie to the self.


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