finger
noun
any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
were fingering
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past progressiveof finger.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I did this three or four times and finally I saw him and one of the clerks back where my samples were, fingering them over.
From Tales of the Road by Charles N. (Charles Newman) Crewdson
Her fingers moved as though in imagination they were fingering a rope of pearls.
From What a Man Wills by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Now for a long while there was silence, so long a while indeed that Dingaan and his Councillors began to move uneasily, for they felt as though the dwarf men were fingering their heart-strings.
From The Ghost Kings by Henry Rider Haggard
They had already fathered around a table in the “smoking-saloon,” and were fingering a span new pack of cards—the implements of their peculiar industry.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
It felt to her as if she were fingering the very quivering tissue, the very protoplasm of life, as she heard him.
From Sons and Lovers by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
