Example sentences for: thumbs

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

  • Siskel did indeed give the film a "marginal thumbs up"--hardly "cringe-making praise."

  • When she does give the thumbs up, especially for an anticipated blockbuster, certain key words and phrases, such as "audience appeal" and "escapist fun," suggest that she is not writing from her own point of view so much as she's gauging in advance the public's reaction.

  • 4 m (37 ft) high, sits in the classical pose of the Amida Buddha (“Compassionate One”), his hands resting in his lap, the thumbs touching the palms and the eyes half-closed in an expression of profound serenity.

  • Entre nous and me , until then, I had believed that, in any baffle of wits, Jane Ace would have won, thumbs down.

  • Ferguson, echoing a charge made by Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly, says that Pinker wants us "to see [infanticide] not as a moral horror but as a genetically encoded evolutionary adaptation, as unavoidable as depth perception or opposable thumbs."


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