thumbed

IPA: θˈʌmd

Examples of "thumbed" in Sentences

He handed her the papers, and she thumbed through them.
Gideon thumbed the button on the edge of the microphone.
Then he moved to crates that held the loose photos and thumbed through each one.
She went into her home office, thumbed through Science and Health, and began reading a section.
He did not use it to chase his assailant away, but without a word thumbed off the safety and shot the would-be thief dead in the head.
He thumbed the button, gratified when the arm of blue-white light appeared in front of him, illuminating Kate as she floated down to the same depth.
Probably many of these _incognita_ and _rarissima_ perished in the great fire of London; others again met their fate solely through their own popularity, being 'thumbed' to pieces.
For example, the distributional tables outlining the impact of the GST were the most 'thumbed' part of the documentation, certainly by those Treasury officers answering phone queries.
I pulled it down and thumbed the light button but I couldn't see from my facemask to the gauge, all I saw is a lit up flecky-brownish mess in the blackness and a smeared turquoise square, too smeared to see what was necessary just like the turquoise pool in the desert.