Well-thumbed pages of the dictionary. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Its menus are well thumbed and badly mimeographed. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
After a moment, he thumbed a button on his chair arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Unnecessary Man] Reference
I thumbed in text and held up my cell for him to read. From Wordnik.com. [Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)] Reference
He thumbed the button, and the pumps started to whine. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorite] Reference
Fenwick thumbed through the large pile of correspondence. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Gray Plague] Reference
Baker sobered and thumbed through the Ellerbee file again. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Gray Plague] Reference
Reluctantly, Thompson thumbed the catch and slid off the top. From Wordnik.com. [...Or Your Money Back] Reference
I thumbed off my safety as quietly as I could and took a shot. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind in the Woods] Reference
He held it to his ear and thumbed the call button insistently. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
He pulled out his radiophone and thumbed the call button again. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
He landed like a hovercraft on his chair and thumbed the remote. From Wordnik.com. [Jigsaw Magic] Reference
The good Book lay well thumbed and dogeared on the kitchen shelf. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
I thumbed one into my palm and covered my mouth as if to cough. From Wordnik.com. [The Mosaic Thief] Reference
Brett yanked the pistol from the holster, thumbed back the hammer. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
Who will be ever thumbed over and spelled over as these have been?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
I thumbed the feather out and dabbed with flour the broken body. From Wordnik.com. [DIAPERS FOR HORSES: AN AUBADE TO A LOST COCKATIEL] Reference
"Just a second, Commander," he said as he thumbed the phone switch. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
Lynch's voice was already coming over it when Malone thumbed it on. From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
Joe took a chair while he waited and thumbed through a fan magazine. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
Take off her black-thumbed cap, for I cannot abide to look at her. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
This isn't the first time that SFCA has thumbed its nose at the CPSC. From Wordnik.com. [Companies leave children at risk by not responding to recalls] Reference
Nipe while he was in the tunnels underneath Government City thumbed down. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
He thumbed a tablet into his mouth, and presently his breathing quieted. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
The Guesser thumbed the opener, and the traveling case split into halves. From Wordnik.com. [But, I Don't Think] Reference
Erin Rankin, 12, quickly thumbed to the back as soon as she got her copy. From Wordnik.com. [Why Harry's Hot] Reference
He thumbed cartridges into the chambers of the cylinder and listened dumbly. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
He thumbed the cartridges into the chambers of the cylinder and listened dumbly. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Twister] Reference
I opened the folder and thumbed through a few of the memos. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 2] Reference
He thumbed his broad-brimmed hat back from his forehead and looked up at the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Destroyers] Reference
Mike the Angel thumbed the switch, and his secretary's face appeared on the screen. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
He laid some of them on my desk and thumbed a few others with an undecided expression. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
English printers is that, being very amusing, they were used up, thumbed out of existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Wayne thumbed his own needle-beam pistol up to full and fired hastily at the distant figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Judas Valley] Reference
Then with a deliberate effort he opened it and thumbed through slowly only half seeing its pages. From Wordnik.com. [Security] Reference
Well, let me see, "he thumbed through the clipboard," I guess there's always room for a few laughs. From Wordnik.com. [Martian V.F.W.] Reference
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