finger
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In one, she holds up a finger covered in red marker to look like blood, pretending to be a patient who asks how much stitches will cost, and is later shocked by the bill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
As if this whole affair weren’t self-satisfied enough, Iñárritu jabs his finger at the audience one last time.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
"Christian bounces across in front of people where they can't lay a finger on him," Red Bulls head coach Dan McFarland told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The basic idea is similar to running a wet finger around the rim of a wine glass.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
On early spring nights in rural Hydesville, New York, the chill dampness from Mud Creek seeped into a person’s bones should a foot, or a finger, escape thick layers of homemade quilts.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
It’s the reason so many of us walk to our cars with our keys poking through our fingers, why we tense up when someone walks too closely behind us on a dark street.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
Guardiola could not help but lift six fingers up to the Liverpool crowd in response - representing the six Premier League titles he won with City.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Oura’s glossy smart ring is everywhere these days: in high-profile TV ad campaigns and on the fingers of plenty of people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
A fan appeared to throw a water bottle at the glass window, while others yelled and displayed their own middle fingers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
He divided up the arrows, pricking his fingers on the sharp flint points.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"It's more a theme park than a shopping mall," Germany supporter Michael Karg, 48, said as he fingered through an A-Z list of restaurants on a digital directory.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
So it didn't take long for Mr Freeman – legally known as Desmond Filby – to be fingered as the alleged culprit.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
And it fingered Diana Teran, its own constitutional policing advisor, as the source of the leak, even though Teran was the one who’d initially reported it and denied passing along the information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2024
And while a species commonly known as "the rat flea" has been fingered as the main culprit in plague outbreaks, a species known as "the human flea" may play a secondary role.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
Brooke fingered the hedgehog pillows and the jars of pretty marbles and rhinestones.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
Chopin sought to convey these moods through explicit performing directions about fingering, pedaling and slurring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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
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
He looked away, fingering a frayed edge of the carpet.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022
He turned around to find Ann’s boyfriend, a tall middle-aged man with a small, neatly trimmed mustache, standing before him, nervously fingering his tie.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
