fingering

Other remaining brand-name correspondents, including the ageless Lesley Stahl, for a while were feared to be fingering their rip cords too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

"I tend now to play parts of chords, rather than fingering the whole damn thing. I use these shortcuts that would be a nightmare for a guitar teacher."

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023

For more than a decade, scientists have debated which animals alive today hail from that earliest sister, fingering two phyla as the most likely candidates: sponges and comb jellies.

From Science Magazine ● May 17, 2023

She had a leopard scarf elegantly wrapped around her head and was fingering a glittering ring and staring blankly into the distance.

From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2023

Legolas sat above on the parapet, fingering his bow, and peering out into the gloom.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Charlie’s first instrument was a banjo, but, baffled by the fingerings required to play it, he removed the neck and converted its body into a snare drum.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2021

Featured in a band lead by Earl “Fatha” Hines, Parker dazzled his Harlem contemporaries with his lightning-fast fingerings and innovative chords, the building blocks of the jazz style that came to be known as “bebop.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2020

“My scores of Schumann, Chopin, Ravel, and Messiaen are still covered in the meticulous fingerings and often pointed criticisms that she would notate, bar after bar,” he wrote shortly after Loriod’s death, in 2010.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018

Students learn and practice on a chanter, an oboe-like instrument with the same fingerings as the bagpipe’s melody pipe.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2017

If you have trouble keeping track of the notes, use a piano keyboard, a written chromatic scale, or the chromatic fingerings for your instrument to count half steps.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones