thumb

The popularity of sending SMS messages can be witnessed first-hand as you see mobile phone users thumbing away at their keypads.

And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch. Just then, the witch to satisfy an itch went flying on her broom stick, thumbing for a hitch.

In the beginning there were several Asian-American independent bookstores that refused to carry the book after thumbing through it.

It just keep you out of trouble, or at least improve your chances of thumbing a lift in Sardinia.

CONSUMERS are beginning to warm to the idea of viewing their novels and news on plastic tablets, thumbing buttons instead of flipping pages.

Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies. I'm above you, smiling as you, drown, drown, drown.

When therefore thumbing recommenced his labors, they heard the money moving, and a sound of klink, klink, klink.

In moments where our concentration is broken it can be tempting to reach up into a bookshelf and start thumbing through a book.

In Sardinia it is seen as particularly offensive and a hitch hiker thumbing a lift is more likely to be run down, than offered a ride.

As he was thumbing through it, he noticed a really neat adaptation on architectural possibilities using the LEGO Bricks as a medium.

Jeff Gordon, an attorney and small business owner at the time, just happened to be thumbing through the newspaper and saw the ad.

While thumbing through some of my resource files today, I ran across these ten business leadership principles.

Even just thumbing through my sewing and knitting books, or browsing Amazon for new releases, can be relaxing enough for me.

I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book, Genesis, which caught my eyes while I was thumbing through my Bible.

Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies, pushing all the mercy down, down, down.

It's like quickly thumbing through a magazine as opposed to staring at a table of contents.

But is watching a film any less valuable than thumbing through the pages of a book?

Then, in April 1980, I was picked up by a man who never told me his name, but was the strangest I met thumbing rides.

The suspect was thumbing through the telephone directory when one policeman detained him.

The new interface evolves mobile text entry beyond thumbing on numeric keypads or miniaturized keyboards.

Objective To observe the effect of meridian-thumbing therapy on flexion deformity on knees of children with cerebral palsy(CP).

She was thumbing the dictionary.

Thumbing vaguely through it, he chanced on a chapter called "The Death of Birth" , about the extinction of species.

When they are not asleep on your shoulder, many of the under-50s are feverishly thumbing their mobile phones.

I was thumbing through a magazine when she walked in.

It is a thumbing of the nose at hegemony.

Well, just by thumbing it.

after a hasty thumbing through the pamphlet of instructions