Example sentences for: thumbnail

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

  • The thumbnail explanation of global warming the Post provides in its lead coverage is odd: the only dangerous effect of warming it mentions by name is the possible spread of malaria to colder climates, nothing about another Ice Age.

  • The death of Roy Rogers gets a surprising amount of coverage: sure, a thumbnail picture/reefer at USAT , but also top-front-with-picture at the LAT , below-the-fold-front at the WP , and a big front-page picture/reefer at the NYT . The NYT editorial (!) puts Proust on the plains with, "For many viewers, the picture of Roy Rogers, aglint in the sun, racing across the harmless West upon Trigger, is a picture as invincible to time as a childhood memory."

  • Time 's package on the Microsoft antitrust case features an interview with Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein; thumbnail sketches of the major players; a long rundown of Microsoft's many holdings, partnerships, and investments; and a short history of Netscape's meteoric rise and subsequent fragility.

  • Time offers thumbnail sketches of prominent members of the House Judiciary Committee, the body deciding Clinton's fate.

  • In addition to transcript structures, the Gene Annotation report presents the evidence supporting a gene model, any comments included by the annotator, and a thumbnail view of the immediate genomic region.


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