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237 examples of Thumb in a sentence

Somebody said the test we're facing now, a scientist told me, is whether the combination of an opposable thumb and a neocortex is a viable combination.
The rule of thumb is you want to get three to four times a week exercise minimum 30 minutes an exercise session, and you want to get aerobic exercise in.
One of them was I used to lie on the kitchen floor of my childhood home, and I would suck the thumb of my left hand and hold my mom's cold toes with my right hand.
And most importantly, I am breaking the silence and provoking meaningful conversations on taboo issues, where often "Silence is golden" is the rule of thumb.
So you touch Jesse here, he feels his thumb; you touch it here, he feels his pinky.
You can move your thumb, your wrist.
Using a grid the size of your thumb, with 32 electrodes on the surface of his brain, Tim uses his thoughts to control an advanced prosthetic arm.
You gotta get them with your thumb before they find the sugar or something.
So you're going to put your thumb on top of this.
It was that enveloping, and there was only one spot that didn't hurt worse than anything I'd ever felt, and it was my instep, and he was holding the arch of my foot and rubbing the instep with his thumb.
And I remember standing there behind the podium as I could hear that little insectoid thumb clicking.
It had a robot thumb that was clicking on the buzzer.
So for example using your thumb under with C major.
One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war, and we wrestle, and of course Sunni beats me because she's the best.
We could even have four thumbs together, and the way you win is you're the first person to pin someone else's thumb.
He was the first person to pin my thumb.
So we'll stick with the normal one for now, and I'm going to give you 30 seconds, every thumb into the node, connect the upper and the lower levels, you guys go on down there.
If you have a free thumb, wave it around, make sure it gets connected.
We need to do a last-minute thumb check.
If you have a free thumb, wave it around to make sure.
Grab that thumb!
How many of you won just won thumb?
Win one thumb once, you will become a grandmaster.
It would be the same thing if I put my thumb up and blocked that spotlight that's getting right in my eye, I can see you in the back row.
That, of course, has to be bigger than my thumb.
Many of you might be wondering why anyone would choose a life like this, under the thumb of discriminatory laws, eating out of trash cans, sleeping under bridges, picking up seasonal jobs here and there.
Now, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has a set of guidelines which have some rules of thumb for measuring entropy, but they don't have anything too specific, and the reason they only have rules of thumb is it turns out they don't actually have any good data on passwords.
We'll link that digital banking with biometric, and now women use the digital financial transaction by using the thumb.
They said, "Anybody can steal my PIN number and take away my hard-earned money, but nobody can steal my thumb."
So now I'm going to show you some tricks where the misconceptions are turned around into rules of thumb.
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