fingering

Example Sentences

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

From Reuters

He looked away, fingering a frayed edge of the carpet.

From Salon

At one point she played the piano like a harp, fingering descending chords on the keyboard but voicing them with a metallic ascendant strum — a beguiling contradiction.

From Washington Post

Increasingly, researchers are fingering a cause: chemical messengers that infected people produce called, fittingly, interferons.

From Science Magazine

“I just love how the things that were popular then keep coming back around,” she said, fingering a Geoffrey Beene blazer.

From New York Times