Microsoft Windows 8 will run on thumb-size motherboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [CES 2011: A Consumer Reports coverage wrap-up] Reference

Catena had lost a thumb-size doll of straw wrapped in thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

The six scouts are locked in a cage by the ogre, and Johnny is shrunken to thumb-size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference

Eric paid him in cash and walked out with the telescope folded to thumb-size inside his coat pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The I Inside]

We had just one our first time and we're thrilled with the five thumb-size peppers that it produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Pepper Jelly] Reference

For a purely primitive firestarter take some paper thin birch bark and wrap it around a thumb-size wad of pine sap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firestarter] Reference

Investigators also found a thumb-size timer, which they traced to a Swiss company that had business contacts with Libya.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lockerbie Bomber Arrives in Libya After Release] Reference

He glanced up just in time to see a thumb-size hole appear on the walkway only a few inches away, melting the snow and causing the damp wood to sizzle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

The thumb-size bats land on sleeping animals and make tiny cuts in their skin, lapping up the blood as it oozes out; an enzyme in their saliva keeps the wound from clotting.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE WAR ON STROKES] Reference

Before putting spark to tinder or flame to kindling, collect a double handful of twigs the diameter of matchsticks, one armful of pencil-size wood, and as many thumb-size sticks as you can bear-hug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field & Streams Ultimate Winter Survival Tips] Reference

He's a professor at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, for one thing, and his wearable computer looks just like a pair of ordinary black-rimmed glasses -- except for the thumb-size gadget on the frame that beams a tiny, bright image onto the lens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Those Wearables!] Reference

And then, farther still, where on a clear day the Twin Towers were thumb-size bumps on the horizon, a circle shaded by grief in the suburban towns of New Jersey, Westchester and Long Island, on the streets where the flags are the thickest, in the houses with pictures of the missing taped to the windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hitting Home] Reference

Try a No. 10 Royal Wulff or Madame X; or a thumb-size Woolly Bugger or Leech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Stream Guide: 50 Ways to Catch Spring Trout] Reference

The most common ones range from thumb-size N-scale cars to larger G-scale cars.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsObserver.com - Home] Reference

The short, thumb-size stick sat reasonably well on my ear with the clear plastic earloop.    From Wordnik.com.  [PC World] Reference

The materials supplied to students on thumb-size data-storage units include Max Gardner's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

The materials supplied to students on thumb-size data- storage units include Max Gardner's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreclosure Lawyers Go to Gardner's Farm for Edge on Lenders - Bloomberg] Reference

I am confident that, as a nation, many of us have thankfully come to the conclusion that we need to appreciate even the thumb-size differences we bring to the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewish Week (BETA)] Reference

The owner, casino mogul Steve Wynn, was showing the artwork to a group of friends in Las Vegas when he inadvertently poked a thumb-size hole in the canvas with his elbow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durangoherald.com] Reference

Portability Offers intelligent power management with a small stow/away thumb-size USB receiver that doubles as an on/off switch when stored; receiver tucks inside of mouse during travel.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.edealinfo.com - Today's Deals] Reference

New York Post reported attorneys for Berlin's Vorderasiatisches Museum argued that the family of Riven Flamenbaum should turn over the 3200-year-old thumb-size artifact from the reign of Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta I because it was looted by Soviet troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

But few species have deteriorated as radically as the thumb-size smelt, which smells like cucumber and spawns in the central and southern delta - a location that puts the fish directly in the path of the massive pumps that funnel water to the Bay Area, Central Valley and.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Prior to the 2003 surgery that reduced the large tumor to thumb-size, Barbara was having 11 seizures a day, but was still teaching and even delayed surgery for three weeks so it would overlap the Thanksgiving break so she could spend the least amount of time out of school.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Review - Top Stories] Reference

When it's available (and things cycle in and out of the ever-changing menu, as Levitt progresses from snout to tail), go for the garlic sausages, two fat pieces over thumb-size fingerling potatoes and homemade sauerkraut (coarsely chopped, not shredded, and mellow in flavor), served in a cast-iron dish resting on a pig-shaped (but of course) cutting board.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

Two hours after I had watched the Shawkat women roll the lamb and rice into thumb-size cylinders in the courtyard, Roa’a and Afrah served the food on a plastic tablecloth they had spread on the living room floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace Meals] Reference

Kettles of a thumb-size only.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes] Reference

3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped thumb-size ginger, peeled and finely chopped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blisstree] Reference

1 thumb-size piece of galangal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thai Basics - Red & Green Curry Paste] Reference