How to Use finger in a Sentence

finger

1 of 2 noun
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  • She was so mad, she gave him the finger.
  • He slipped the ring onto her finger.
  • She ran her fingers through his hair.
  • Don't stick your fingers in the cookie batter!
  • The baby held onto my thumb with her tiny fingers.
  • Some angry driver flipped me the finger on the highway this morning.
  • He drummed his fingers on the table impatiently.
  • The strong wind blows the images of the world out of her fingers.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen to hear the content of your screen.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
  • Keep adult and child fingers clear of the footrest lever or chair base.
    — Casey Seiden, Parents, 28 June 2023
  • The kinds who spend 90% of their time on the floor and/or with their fingers in their mouths and/or noses?
    — Liz Krieger, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2023
  • If soil sticks to your finger, wait a few more days and test again.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 11 Aug. 2023
  • And the guy with his finger on the button was your captain?
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • Resist the urge to put your fingers in their mouth or throat.
    — Stacey Colino, Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Our fingers and toes are crossed for even more in the coming days.
    — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Our fingers and toes are crossed for even more in the coming weeks.
    — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Poke a finger about an inch down into the bark or moss.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2023
  • This can affect the wrists, fingers and hands, and can cause neck pain.
    — Kristin Karim, M.d., Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
  • Unlock your phone and open the Quick Settings menu—swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen.
    — Whitson Gordon, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
  • In her finger dangled a Jacquemus bag the size of her pinky.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 June 2023
  • Use your finger to place the drops, then smear them gently and wait for the liquid to dry.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Harvesting the Meat For split legs, pull apart the shell with your fingers.
    — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Step 10: Now reach down and using the small finger of your right hand secure the lead line, as shown.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Jimmy can’t hear out of one ear; one of his fingers got caught in a machine.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The world’s record is a child born in India with 10 toes on each foot and seven fingers on each hand.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • All while continuing to keep a finger on the pulse of Hip-Hop.
    — Bonsu Thompson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The wings of bats, which are mammals, are formed by skin stretched across the animals’ arms and fingers.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • Why were her mother’s fingers so blurry against the crisp knit of Prince Louis’s sweater?
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • To remove the disc, hook your finger under the disc’s rim and carefully pull it out.
    — goodhousekeeping.com, 16 May 2023
  • Step 3: Peel the Peaches When the peaches are cool enough to handle, use a knife or your fingers to peel the skin from each peach.
    — Wini Moranville, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2023
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finger

2 of 2 verb
  • He was fingered as a suspect.
  • The fence wriggled around it, fingering the hole like a wound.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 July 2018
  • But this occurs only for the hand that fingers the strings.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
  • One man walked up and down the sidewalk, fingering the small wooden beads of a rosary.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2019
  • This pouch is made of fingering-weight yarn and is tiny enough to be worn as a necklace, the designer says.
    — Mary Mooney, OregonLive.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The way the chords are placed on the keys (flat-fingered on the black notes) is not so much a vision of reflections, whether trees, clouds or water lilies.
    — Stephen Hough, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The big spoon can kiss their neck, play with their nipples, and rub their clit (or finger them, or give them a hand job) from behind.
    — Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 25 May 2022
  • Three other teens in the car from which the fatal gunshots were fired have fingered Russaw as the shooter.
    — David Owens, courant.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • To finger them as the cause of inflation is like blaming wet sidewalks for rain.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • FFRobotics is developing a machine that has three-fingered grips to grab fruit and twist or clip it from a branch.
    — Nicholas K. Geranios, The Seattle Times, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The little boy, with a badly bruised face and a jagged slash running across his forehead, fingered a toy car with his bandaged hand.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Suspicions have followed several teams for years; the Dodgers have been fingered by the Mets and Brewers each of the past two seasons.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Van der Ham put two and two together and fingered the passenger as the culprit.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Last week, the club filed its counterclaim, fingering its worker as the culprit.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2019
  • There was a certain amount of middle-fingering from the Trump contingent and tut-tutting from our side.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
  • He was fingered as one of two people who forced their way into an East Garfield Park drug house and shot and stabbed four people before torching the home.
    — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
  • Mrs. Farzan fingered the bald patch her mother created.
    — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • Epley fingered a joystick controller to tilt the chair back until Delahunt was face up.
    — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2019
  • More important, the 164S leaves for dead the cars that Alfa has fingered as its competition.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 10 Mar. 2023
  • James, back on the field for a theoretical extra point, fingers the top of his facemask.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Often rumored as the victim of an inter-gang dispute, some have even fingered hip hop mega moguls of ordering the deed.
    — Alex Heigl, PEOPLE.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Icy fingers up and down your spine suggest a magic number in the romance department.
    — Minerva, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
  • This is not advisable for the fumble-fingered, and is why the newer Marlins have a cross-bolt safety that blocks the hammer from striking the firing pin.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Its rules place the onus upon anyone fingered as a possible alien to prove otherwise.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • But there’s a broader point here about the police, who consistently finger the wrong man (in the case of Crystal, the wrong girl), almost always on the basis of skin color.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Kuma fingered a loose, perforated canopy strung up by one of his students and discussed it briefly with him.
    — Nikil Saval, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • This moment, this sudden encounter with nothingness, is as close as a dying memoirist can come to fingering the edge of the knife about to cut her throat.
    — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 5 July 2017
  • Vickery and the cops go to Ashley’s house to find John and bring him in, after someone at the factory fingered him as Anne and Natalie’s murderer.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 20 Aug. 2018
  • Known as Buddha's hands, or fingered citron, these wild looking fruits are often eaten in China and India and are known for their strong, sweet smell.
    — Tirion Morris, azcentral, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Satisfaction with traffic flow has dropped over the years, and poor traffic signal timing — the work of Broward County — was fingered as a big problem.
    — Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 May 2018

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