Use finger in a sentence
Sentences ending with finger
- There stood Caracalla, with the Egyptian at his side, pointing down at the arena with his finger. [10]
- He had never wished evil to any one who did not injure him, but even if he could have averted this sore sorrow from the Emperor Rudolph he would not have stirred a finger. [10]
- Voila, he can wind them all round his finger! [11]
- You are going to be good, and do everything I tell you, like a dear," and she tapped his cheek affectionately with her finger. [5]
- At once she thought she saw the marks of pressure with a finger. [6]
- The man who thought a tarantula had "got him" was mistaken--only a crack in a box had caught his finger. [5]
- But mind, Euphrasia, this is a secret," said Tom, raising a warning finger. [9]
- Pierre stooped to the sand, and wrote two words with his finger. [11]
- One has seen the like of this coating upon furniture in unoccupied houses, and has written his idle thought in it with his finger. [5]
- Mishka had opened the clavichord and was strumming on it with one finger. [2]
Short sentences using finger
- Merely a finger shot off. [5]
- It is the mocking finger. [11]
- Dormy pointed with his finger. [11]
- But--just follow my finger! [10]
Sentences containing finger two or more times
- The besieged had to be conquered limb by limb, and finger by finger, before they would make up their minds to yield. [10]
- He put his finger up, his unhandsome finger, and caught away some moisture from his eyes. [11]
- She had allowed Beaton to change it himself from the finger where she had worn it to the finger on which he said she ought to wear it. [8]
More example sentences with the word finger in them
- If you keep your mouth shut, and the devil doesn't put his finger into the pie, I think, spite of all the Zorrillos, I shall be Eletto to-morrow. [10]
- You can't put your finger on a spot in the map of Missouri that I don't know as if I'd made it. [5]
- And then, sir, you will be sent to the Tower, and I shan't move a finger to get you out. [9]
- Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
- I can see you now, your tiny finger plunged into the pot of paint, and then carefully printing off the round pattern all over the white linen. [10]
- You see, if you marry the prince"--he meant the younger man--and he crooked one finger, "you forever lose the chance of marrying the other, and you will displease the court besides. [2]
- She took it with a curious contracted look and put it on the finger again, then pulled off the other glove quietly. [11]
- However, if you will examine every thought that occurs to you for the next two days, you will find that in at least nine cases out of ten you can put your finger on the outside suggestion--And that ought to convince you that No. [5]
- Woe to those who call by its true name what those blind souls call pleasure and enjoyment as serving to hasten the flight of time--not too long at the most; woe to those who dare raise even a finger against it! [10]
- We know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity; it is where his opinion differs from ours. [5]
- We know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours. [5]
- But that's only when the man at the head keeps his finger on the piston-rod. [11]
- But the mandibles were not strong enough to pinch my finger so as to cause actual pain. [1]
- A plump finger was pointing to where the sandy reef lay far astern of us. [9]
- As the bottle was being opened the Pasha took up his string of beads and began to finger them, for the blue eyes in the poke bonnet were disconcerting. [11]
- Norinne, she is ver' happy, too, and Marie bite on my finger, and I give him sugar-stick to suck. [11]
- A woman stood upon a point of the great rock, a red robe hanging on her, her hair free over her shoulders, her finger pointing at the Intendant. [11]
- She"--jerking a finger towards the house--"she earns what you eat, she--" It was the last word he ever spoke, for, with a low terrible cry, the Seigneur snatched up a knife from the table and sprang upon him, catching him by the throat. [11]
- While speaking, he took Hermon's hand and gave him the stone, but the artist instantly used his finger tips to feel it. [10]
- This was a tongue of land stretched like a finger into the sea, on whose point stood a little palace which Cleopatra, incited by a chance remark of Antony, had had built there to surprise him. [10]
- Perhaps there come to the disordered mind flashes of insight, illuminations and divinations, greater than are given to the sane, for she suddenly said in a whisper, touching me with a nervous finger, "I will go and tell her where to hide. [11]
- He gave it to the Cure, who put it on her finger one day after confession. [11]
- He asked people to pass their hands through their hair (thus collecting upon them a thin coating of the natural oil) and then making a thumb-mark on a glass strip, following it with the mark of the ball of each finger in succession. [5]
- Fate had only to make his foot slip one little inch or decree that a wasp should sting him on the finger to put an end to his existence. [10]
- There he came to know this good man,"--her finger gently felt his name upon the stone,--"who made him a guest upon his ship; and so he came on towards England. [11]
- If he asked to kiss me, I should crumble into dust, as ashes dried in the sun crumble if you touch them with a finger, and I should be as much afraid of his lips as of a lion's. [10]
- When Adrian began to feel better, she went to Bessie, who pale and inanimate, seemed to be gently fading away, and only now and then raised her little finger to play with her dry lips. [10]
- When they came to dinner Shelek Pasha saw the turquoise ring upon the finger of friend Hope, and this startled him and pleased him. [11]
- Running a finger through one delicately, she said, with a still softer tone than before: "Why should not one be happy? [11]
- As soon as they show any disposition to refuse to the old gods the respect that is due to them, or to raise a finger against them, severity must be exercised and every excess must be punished by death. [10]
- Presently he rubbed them as though he felt revived, raised his head a little with the physician's help, and looking up, said: "Draw the ring off my finger, Orion, and wear it worthily.--Where is little Mary, where is Paula? [10]
- When he saw the turquoise ring on the finger of the little Quaker lady he fancied he could almost hear the accompaniment of the song. [11]
- It was like the touch of a finger which launches a boat balancing in the ways onto the deep. [11]
- Facts always yield the place of honor, in conversation, to thoughts about facts; but if a false note is uttered, down comes the finger on the key and the man of facts asserts his true dignity. [6]
- He went before the others, took his seat by the bedside, and held the patient's wrist with his finger on the pulse. [6]
- It is considered the next best thing to tying threads around his finger by way of reminders. [5]
- He smiled at the lizards hanging on the foundation stones, he paused to dip his finger in the basin of a fountain, he eyed good-humouredly the beggars--old pensioners of the late Dakoon--seated in the shade with outstretched hands. [11]
- Instinctively he felt the little book of philosophy which he always carried now in his breast-pocket, as a pietist would finger his beads in moments of fear or anxiety. [11]
- Again he ran the finger from the St. Lawrence up the coast and through Hudson's Straits, but shook his head in negation. [11]
- The discovery of the fact that the nail of the middle finger on her right hand was broken, gave her a clew. [9]
- She looked into the face which Time's finger had anointed, and motherhood had etched with trouble, and said: "'Tisn't much, is it? [11]
- By 6 P.M. the face has dissolved and gone, and the goatee has become what looks like the shadow of a tower with a pointed roof, and the shoe had turned into what the printers call a "fist" with a finger pointing. [5]
- The finger of the devil--was it not real? [11]
- Of this island the centre is London; of London the heart is "the City," and in the City you can put your finger on one spot where the pulse of the world is distinctly felt to beat. [4]
- The first thing the beetle did was to take him by the finger. [5]
- We will apply that temptation in the form of a pressure of my finger. [5]
- He had remembered that he had not stirred a finger that morning, and had promised to have an inscription on a jug completed early the next day. [10]
- In our time that finger has multiplied itself into ten thousand thousand implements of research, challenging all mysteries, weighing the world as in a balance, and sifting through its prisms and spectroscopes the light that comes from the throne of the Eternal. [6]
- You fit the tale," said de Mauprat dubiously, touching the letter with his finger. [11]
- No, for it supports itself by holding to her finger, and thus goes a few steps on its hind legs, and then falls down. [5]
- From the note struck in my mind, when my finger touched that sorrowful page in the register of the Church of the Refugees at Southampton, had spread out the whole melody and the very book of the song. [11]
- They tie a string to the shrouds --stand with back against it walk three steps (eyes shut)--turn around three times and go and put finger on the string; only a military man can do it. [5]
- His nose lay straight down, his face, like a finger with the end joint tilted up. [5]
- It was good sport, but one day she took away its food, gave it to the cat, and pointed her finger at monsieur the panther. [11]
- People, when they speak of him, tap their foreheads with one finger. [4]
- Nothing offered for some little time, and then he remembered hearing the doctor tell about a certain thing that laid up a patient for two or three weeks and threatened to make him lose a finger. [5]
- Then he took some ashes from his cigar, wetted his finger, and thus ingeniously removed all appearance of newness from the hole he had made, carefully cleaning up the chips and putting them in his pocket. [9]
- Rising from the soft pillows in the coffin, she shook her finger threateningly at her, or, weeping and wailing, pointed down to the flames--doubtless those of purgatory--which were blazing upward around her, and had already caught the hem of her shroud. [10]
- So rough and so good!--My old man, to be sure, must storm and rave, but then his feeble and sickly nobody of a little wife can wind him round her finger. [10]
- The copper was so flexible that Captain Newport bent a piece of it the thickness of his finger as if it had been lead. [4]
- Perceiving a significant smile upon the lips of the faithful follower, and recognising the peril contained in the last resolve, he shook his finger at Quijada, saying: "As if even the inmost recesses of your soul were concealed from me! [10]
- Then the princess slowly turned, with eyes gleaming with hate, and pointing her finger straight at Conrad, said: "Thou art the man! [5]
- The smooth piston slides backward and forward as a lady might slip her delicate finger in and out of a ring. [6]
- In the morning Slade practised on him with his revolver, nipping the flesh here and there, and occasionally clipping off a finger, while Jules begged him to kill him outright and put him out of his misery. [5]
- A wild light showed in his eyes, and his tongue blundered out: "Yis, Hilton's wife's finger, or a look av her eye, or nothin' at all. [11]
- And when they shouted, the more she shook her head and put her finger to her lips in reproof and vanished from their sight. [9]
- At this Philippus shook his finger at the man, exclaiming: "Do not get too tightly entangled here, my friend. [10]
- She is a shining drop of quicksilver which you put your finger on and it isn't there. [5]
- Taking up another, she touched it with a moistened finger to test the heat, and, leaning above the table again, passed it over the linen for a few moments, smiling at something that was in her mind. [11]
- And to her, she felt, it was already fulfilled; for her trembling finger had, as it were, but just touched the door, and, to! [10]
- She knew that she could wind the big-mannered soldier about her finger. [11]
- Why does he shadow a woman who wouldn't lift her finger to save him from battle, murder, or sudden death? [11]
- But Tom he set by our lawyer, and had his finger in everywheres, of course. [5]
- But the small servant pausing, and holding up her finger, the cone gently disappeared, though the look of concern did not. [12]
- Wait..." and she seized the countess' hands and kissed a knuckle of the little finger, saying, "June," and continued, kissing, "July, August," on the other hand. [2]
- I can only see It--like a long dark finger yonder. [11]
- Mr. Braham having seated himself, deliberately surveyed the entire house, made a remark to one of his assistants, and then taking an ivory-handled knife from his pocket began to pare his finger nails, rocking his chair backwards and forwards slowly. [5]
- Wilson's got a scheme for driving plain window glass panes out of the market by decorating it with greasy finger marks, and getting rich by selling it at famine prices to the crowned heads over in Europe to outfit their palaces with. [5]
- With an Arab salute, he said: "I am, as you know, my brother, a friend of our master the Khedive, and I carry his ring on my finger. [11]
- As Nahoum had said, the greatest of all weapons was the mocking finger. [11]
- His hair was rumpled, he wore an old house coat with a hole in the elbow, and with one finger he kept his place in the book which he held in his hand. [9]
- A finger of rock, waiting as the old man said--for what? [11]
- He saw a ring upon her finger. [11]
- Chiltern put a ring on a finger of her ungloved hand. [9]
- Give me the ring from thy finger. [11]
- Atossa took a ring from her finger, put it on mine and kissed my hand in the warmth of her emotion--you know how eager and excitable she is. [10]
- I touch, with reverent finger, the actual spot where the infant Jesus lay, but I think--nothing. [5]
- He lifted a reproving finger at her now, but with a smile on his kindly face, and "Fie, fie, young lady! [11]
- During these hasty reflections Els extended her hand toward him, and the shining gold circlet which her lover had placed on her ring finger glittered in the torchlight. [10]
- She wore a red-and-yellow turban, which set off her complexion well, and hoops of gold in her ears, and beads of gold about her neck, and an old funeral ring upon her finger. [6]
- He rubbed the red spat on his nose, and pointed a bony finger at Mr. Cluyme. [9]
- Suffice it to recall, with Honora, that Lily Dallam, with a sure instinct, had put the finger of her wit on this new attribute of Howard's. [9]
- At length he reached out and touched the writing with a caressing finger. [11]
- Now his finger ran into the hole made by the bullet, and he gave a little laugh of modest triumph. [11]
- At that he put his finger to his nose. [9]
- No man can put his finger on anything in the Constitution, or on the line of history, which shows it. [7]
- I remember it"--he put a finger to his lip--"let me see. [11]
- The slim gentleman poured the width of a finger of claret in his glass, soused it with water, and held it up. [9]
- It too was potter's trash, which a stone might shatter, a flower in full bloom, whose leaves drop apart if touched by the finger! [10]
- Yesterday, by the pointing of a finger, he created a province; to-day he dares not, but consoles himself by saying he does not wish to point. [9]
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