Example sentences for: thumbs

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

  • Thumbs go up, down, and every which way for the final film by director Stanley Kubrick, who died shortly after wrapping the movie.

  • With flora everywhere withering and browning, carefully tended, thriving marijuana plants stick out like sore green thumbs.

  • 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 .

  • 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)?

  • Responding to my suggestions that he uses selective quotation and inadequate research, he writes, "Siskel gave Armageddon a 'thumbs up' and named it his 'flick of the week' on Sneak Previews ."


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