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Example sentences for: thumb

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

Instead of trying to forecast lifetime income and economic conditions in the distant future, people may use simple rules of thumb, such as saving a fixed share of their income or avoiding debt.
Narrow the gap in black-white school achievement and you won't need to put your thumb on the scale of college admissions or hiring or promotions or anything else.
Additional contacts, between the thumb subdomain of p51 and RNase H subdomain of p66 are also substantial [ 11 12 ] .
He manifestly did not, as Jones claims, "place a meaty thumb upon the scales" so that he was "virtually guaranteed" that he would find what he was looking for.
There needn't be a physical injury for the brain to send pain signals, and that pain is as real to the sufferer as it would be if she'd hit her thumb with a hammer.