finger
noun
any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
is fingering
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present progressiveof finger (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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His unmade films haunt “Beale Street”; one gets the sense that Jenkins is fingering in the dark for the movie that never was.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2018
One is fingering a guitar without playing any particular tune, and the other has his hat cocked over his eyes in a burlesque, dude-like manner.
From The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts by Zora Neale Hurston
One point Paderewski is very particular about, and that is fingering.
From Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers by Harriette Brower
Occasionally, he is fingering a portfolio of engravings, or leaning aside to examine severely a globe of the world.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
