Example Sentences

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If you are thumbing through the brochure/paperwork, it will be there in black and white.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

Maybe that helps explain why theaters are thumbing back the pages to this nihilistic work.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023

“We have, I think, a responsibility at the same time to go after people that are thumbing their nose, that are particularly being aggressive and reticent to do anything.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2020

They are thumbing through the rulebook of the monastery while in front of them a mafia don creates havoc.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2019

The easy money period now apparently inaugurated makes conditions auspicious as far as financing goes, and security dealers, investors and speculators are thumbing Professor William Z. Ripley's proposed scheme for rail mergers with eager interest.

From Time Magazine Archive