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Thumb in sentence

237 examples of Thumb in a sentence

They're only rules of thumb, so of course they don't apply to everything, but this is how you can generalize.
That's a rule of thumb.
With these four rules of thumb, you could probably answer better than the chimps, because the chimps cannot do this.
So here's a general rule of thumb that I believe in: When societies have strong institutions, the difference that one good leader can make is limited, but when you have weak institutions, then just one good leader can make or break that country.
What we can see with great sharpness and clarity and accuracy is the equivalent of the surface area of our thumb on our outstretched arm.
I believe that the rule of thumb is: Easier to mobilize does not always mean easier to achieve gains.
Yet for me, signing it with my thumb sticking up like that doesn't feel natural.
And if you look at it over here, the main thing I wrote on my thumb was the future.
Sampson: "Nay, as they dare, I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it."
Abraham: "Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?" Sampson: "I do bite my thumb, sir."
Abraham: "Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?" Okay, so how does this development help us understand mood or character?
Biting your thumb today may not seem like a big deal, but Sampson says it is an insult to them.
Looking deeper, biting your thumb in the time in which the play was written is like giving someone the finger today.
As a rule of thumb, we should spend about one trillion dollars on the basic infrastructure needs of every billion people in the world.
How many thumb drives can you fill?
This is what I mean by a poor handhold: an edge smaller than the width of a pencil but facing downward that I had to press up into with my thumb.
And so you're going in with your thumb, and you start to press a little bit on the brain, because tumors tend to be a little harder, stiffer, and so you go in and go a little bit like this and say, "It seems like the tumor is right there."
And so now we can actually imagine a world where doctors and surgeons, as they take away a tumor, they actually know what to take out, and they no longer have to guess with their thumb.
A good rule of thumb is that the Writers Guild of America registers about 50,000 new pieces of material every year, and most of them are screenplays.
Like the on-off switch on my desk lamp has a little indentation for my thumb that perfectly fits my thumb.
So now go back to me sitting with my thumb in the air trying to line up something surprising.
I want you to pinch right here with two fingers and your thumb.
If you think about them, they're only 15 millimeters long, so that's barely the width of your thumb.
She put her left thumb into the left side of my lower back, while reaching her right index finger around to the front of my right shoulder.
For example, one user wanted to know when we would have a literal thumb drive.
Hold a flashlight to your thumb.
That's not a bad rule of thumb, except when it is.
This is a thumb claw.
That's the animal that thumb claw came from: Suchomimus.
So, in this example, which is an example of what's called Bateson's Rule, he has two kinds of mutations of a human thumb.
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