fingers

Example Sentences

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Griffiths doesn’t fight against the formula, he just takes our expectations for every scene and gingers them up a little, the movie version of a cozy sweater threaded with tinsel.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

"They would make sambal with that, native gingers, and a Bali spice called Long Pepper. That would provide this sultry taste that sambals were famous for."

From Salon • May 10, 2022

What about gingers; do we have enough red-heads?

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2018

However, he can think of many alternatives for the shade garden, including evergreen ferns, wild gingers, hellebores, mondo grass, a little-known evergreen shrub named ruscus, and the native partridge berry.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017

He came over here to 'ginger-up' the Admiralty, and in fact 'ginger-up' anybody who didn't very strongly object to being 'gingered-up,' and those who did, well he gingers them up just the same.

From John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall by Jenkins, Herbert George