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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 Hurston, Zora Neale

One point Paderewski is very particular about, and that is fingering.

From Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers by Brower, Harriette

Occasionally, he is fingering a portfolio of engravings, or leaning aside to examine severely a globe of the world.

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir