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Example Sentences
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These versions are also much larger: while an O’Ryan’s potato is about the size of a thumbprint, See’s can stretch up to three inches long.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
In Hammani’s retelling, he relented after four days, applying his thumbprint to a written confession, which he wasn’t allowed to read.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
If this is your era, put a thumbprint on it.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
It will be such its own thing with its own thumbprint on it.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024
In two small portraits, however, there is a black thumbprint on her forehead, as if someone had inked in bangs, as if someone had marked her.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
