Example sentences for: thumbs

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

  • And how irrelevant is capital-F Feminism now that NOW et al. have given a tacit thumbs up to the president's sexual harassment of an intern (an issue that even three years ago would have provoked mau-mauing of the highest order)?

  • So I will not give a movie a pass because its heart is in the right place, and voted thumbs down on such as A Soldier's Story , Besieged , Buena Vista Social Club (great music, bad direction, terrible story sense, too much Ry Cooder), Jakob the Liar , and The Other Sister .

  • An inside NYT "Week in Review" piece explains why the Sicilian mafia thumbs its nose at the "Russian mafia": It's a matter of definition.

  • Both of us gave it two thumbs up, by the way.

  • Obituaries fondly recalled his on-air debates and "two thumbs up" salutes with fellow reviewer Roger Ebert on their eponymous syndicated TV show.


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