Example sentences for: thumb

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

  • Across the main concourse a 12-m (39-ft) bronze thumb by César sticks out like, well, a sore thumb.

  • Arucas, is a workaday town overshadowed by an immense 20th-century neo-Gothic cathedral that stands out like a sore thumb.

  • It had been a long time since he flagged a ride with his thumb, but he was desperate.

  • Avoiding the truth is more like it--the Post didn't turn on the TV or tell the girl to suck her thumb.

  • The successive Tokugawa leaders established their power base around their castle in Edo and developed a clever system of keeping the feudal lords (the daimyo) under their tributary thumb.


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