Example sentences for: thumbnail

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

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

  • (Click on each thumbnail to see an enlargement.)

  • Thanks for the thumbnail sketches; I'll try to cover more books tomorrow.

  • Newsweek 's war preview includes a map listing U.S. weaponry and its concentrations, thumbnail sketches of American military commanders, a short essay from Madeleine Albright explaining the need for a military strike, and a story on Saddam Hussein's intricate security measures (he maintains surgically altered body doubles).


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