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When arguing with the prime minister, Mr. Gallant waved his right hand with thumb and index finger extended for emphasis, his eyes lit up with a rare fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Brain regions that process nearby parts of the body, such as the thumb and index finger, are also located near one another.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

The 26-year-old celebrated her 12.09 clocking with a finger to her lips as the crowd erupted.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

He goes on to explain why he isn’t playing, lifting a crooked finger to the camera and saying he is injured.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The more stylish ladies with finger waves and cloche hats tilted their heads my way.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

For their part, her fans are still likely to watch the uncomfortable show through their fingers.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

After moving heavy boxes of metal tools and parts by hand between cargo pallets, he strolls over, steps into the box, sits down and smiles, running his fingers through his hair like in the shower.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

And, notably, they eat Cane’s, whether it’s buying entire orders of just Texas toast or dunking their entire hand into a fountain cup of Cane’s Sauce and licking it off their fingers.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

He taped the unfeeling fingers to the functioning ones so that he could grip a baseball, then, resembling “a little boy throwing against the steps of his back porch,” threw against a wall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

I said now as the buttonhook in Betsie’s swift fingers sped up my shoes, “you could fit the fur hat right inside the bonnet! Then when you get outside, take the bonnet off!”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"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

They attacked France as a liar who had fingered Leasure to save himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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

She blinked through her specs and fingered her last whisker in thought.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

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

Portia stood in the doorway, fingering her hair and her earrings.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers