Examples of 'thumbing' in a sentence

Meaning of "thumbing"

thumb (verb) - to press or move (something) with one's thumb
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  • present participle of thumb
  • The act by which something is thumbed.

How to use "thumbing" in a sentence

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Odo enjoys thumbing his nose at authority.
It seems another girls been thumbing the pages.
Your general thumbing your nose at authority.
Duly noted must stop thumbing nose.
Thumbing rides may save your busfare.
I do not like a wife thumbing her nose at me.
I am thumbing through this thing at lunch time.
I can see you winking and thumbing up.
Somebody has been thumbing through their dictionary.
I imagine you are a stranger to a man thumbing in a softie.
I was thumbing through a magazine rack in a waiting room.
Book of rules for guys thumbing rides.
No more thumbing through files to retrieve an image.
I just left him on the road thumbing a lift.
I was just thumbing through it when you were in the shower.

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The dancers move in time to the thumbing percussion.
Thumbing your nose at army regulations.
Perhaps our man is thumbing through the directory.
Thumbing your nose at the elements.
Must stop thumbing nose.
Thumbing your nose at the world.
Spent an entire career thumbing his nose at the censors.
Thumbing your nose at the system.
She started thumbing buttons.
Thumbing your nose at me is not gonna make it any easier.
It looks like you are out there thumbing your nose.
I was just thumbing through the old family album.
But nobody here remembers her taking a taxi or thumbing a lift.
He enjoys thumbing his nose at authority.
Sliding one of my guns to my lap and thumbing back the hammer.
We were just thumbing our noses at everything.
Nothing like throwing in with a band of young rebels thumbing their noses at convention.
Thumbing through the files.
You are not gonna see him thumbing through a biology textbook.
Thumbing their noses at authorities.
But they are not thumbing their noses at the law.
Thumbing it at her dad.
Its as if they are thumbing their nose at the rest of the world.
Thumbing your nose.
She complains all the time that death keeps thumbing his nose at her.
Is thumbing its nose at me.
Walk a bit further till the beginning of the bridge where you can start thumbing.
I am thumbing through this thing at lunch time and i found this.
Went flying on her broomstick Thumbing for a hitch.
He is thumbing his nose at me.
Went flying on her broomstick Thumbing for a hitch.
I was thumbing through.
Otherwise the hard fact is that the Chinese are thumbing their noses at us.
Were thumbing our noses at the Almighty himself.
Father Amorth begins every exorcism by thumbing his nose at the devil.

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