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Finger in sentence

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I remember my cousin Sasha, two years old at the time, looking through a picture book and licking one finger and flicking the page with the other hand, licking one finger and flicking the page with the other hand.
If he was to lose his little finger tomorrow, he would not sleep tonight, but provided he never saw them, he would snore with the most profound security over the ruin of a hundred million of his brethren.
MK: Well, the first thing, for me, was Gabby was still kind of almost unconscious, but she did something when she was in the ICU hospital bed that she used to do when we might be out to dinner at a restaurant, in that she pulled my ring off and she flipped it from one finger to the next, and at that point I knew that she was still in there.
"Lord, grant that I desire more than I can accomplish," Michelangelo implored, as if to that Old Testament God on the Sistine Chapel, and he himself was that Adam with his finger outstretched and not quite touching that God's hand.
But imagine instead, Smith says, you were to learn that tomorrow you were to have your little finger chopped off.
So this raises the question: Would you sacrifice thousands of lives to save your little finger?
It's all different, and it's a function of your leg length and your back and the contours of your back, and if I were to put sensors, maybe 100 sensors into all of your chairs right now, I could create an index that's fairly unique to you, sort of like a fingerprint, but it's not your finger.
I'd ask him again and again to visualize the motion, to watch from within as the finger curled and extended, and to move along with it in his mind.
There was a paper published in the medical journal The Lancet in England a few years ago called " A man who pricked his finger and smelled putrid for 5 years."
The man had cut his finger, he worked processing chickens, and then he started to smell really, really bad.
That is, we don't recognize the problems in our own system, in our politics and our economics, and are very quick to point the finger elsewhere, and believe that, in fact, we in the collective West are guilty of a great bunch of hypocrisy.
And although I couldn't even feel my finger to push the trigger, I knew I wasn't getting out.
When my mom's favorite lamp broke, I had to be there when she was trying to find out how and by who, because I had to defend myself, because if you're not, then the finger is pointed at you, and before you know it, you will be grounded.
And when you touch it with your finger, you can actually, then, introduce all the forces on the face of that screen, and that actually has a certain amount of value.
Just a picture of the transmission, and as you rub your finger across the transmission it highlights the various parts.
And I expected them to put a ruler next to the wall, size it up with a finger, and make an estimate of the height.
In a time where people claim it's kind of a tough environment, people are giving a middle finger to this scripted life, the things that people say you're supposed to do, in exchange for things that matter to them and do the things that inspire them.
Looking deeper, biting your thumb in the time in which the play was written is like giving someone the finger today.
They're only about the size of my finger, and they spend about 99.9 percent of their time hidden under a rock.
That spark is about to be conferred by the creator in that finger, which is one millimeter from the hand of Adam.
On each subject, one index finger was covered in the new painkiller while the other remained untouched.
The subjects reported that the treated finger hurt less than the untreated one.
About 20 minutes into this conversation I was having with this one young woman, I leaned forward and tried to put my finger in the palm of her baby's hand.
Index finger, middle finger, ring, little.
Finger, finger, finger, finger, finger, finger, finger, finger.
Finger, finger, finger, finger.
Finger, finger, finger, pink or finger.
Pink, finger, finger, finger, finger, finger, finger, finger.
There are fat athletes who run marathons, teach yoga or do kickboxing, all done with a middle finger firmly held up to the status quo.
I felt every stare, every giggle, every pointed finger, not the finger, but every pointed finger, and I hated it.
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