Example Sentences

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U. S. tourists who had been thumbing copies of Everyman closed their books, listened to the opening of the Deity's speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

The doctor dropped the wrist he had been thumbing.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

Belmont had been thumbing its nose at the judicial system as long as anyone could remember.

From Wild Justice by Sprague, Ruth M.