finger
noun
any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
had fingered
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past perfectof finger.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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They attacked France as a liar who had fingered Leasure to save himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
However, during the reinvestigation, he told prosecutors that he was made to feel like a suspect and that he had fingered Smokes and Warren partly to “avoid getting arrested himself.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Rosa suspects the agents had the wrong person, or someone in the neighborhood had fingered them for some reason.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2018
Lee said that his former girlfriend had fingered him to the police because she was jealous of his new flame, and that the bloody coveralls were not his.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2018
Mr. Beecher said nothing, and after the boy had fingered the papers he chanced to look in the preacher's direction and found him watching him intently with a curiously serious look in his face.
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok
