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"thumb through" Definitions
  1. to turn the pages of a book quickly in order to get a general idea of what is in it
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74 Sentences With "thumb through"

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"I thumb through Twitter, like everybody else does," Mr. Buttigieg said.
As a boy, Kawauchi loved to thumb through atlases and read train schedules.
There are switches to flick, file drawers to thumb through, and timelines to crawl.
It's an "evidentiary snark hunt", he wrote, to thumb through stump-speech transcripts for damning bits.
But if you thumb through the index of finger-snapping history, he wasn't anywhere near the middle.
After we eat, I thumb through cookbooks until I hit a wall of tired at 8:43.
You should thumb through the best magazine profiles that contemporaneously documented his rise, fall, and rise again.
But not everyone has time to thumb through hundreds of greeting cards looking for the perfect message.
They can do a cursory search, however, in which they thumb through the phone, without that suspicion.
They had to thumb through Korean-English dictionaries to figure out how to get a driver's license.
When it was time for Kelly to study, he had to thumb through degrading images of blackface.
You can visit Prince's personal library and thumb through books, for notable quotes and even a history lesson.
It's a charming book lover's paradise with themed floors and over 6,000 book titles available to thumb through.
Still, even before rereading "Notes on 'Camp,'" a thumb-through of the show's lavish if cumbersome catalog excited me.
In other words, people didn't have to thumb through voting tallies to know the political cast of a neighborhood.
The Vivo X20 phone, available now in China, is not the first phone to read your thumb through the screen.
But the Aberdeen Bestiary is a delight to thumb through for its visual splendor — and now you can with ease.
You can even verbally quantify how much you ate, or thumb through drop-down menus and type in entries manually.
I love to sit under a blanket on a cold night and thumb through page after page of blooming flowers.
Should you need more encouragement, there are sofas where you can order coffee and thumb through a book or newspaper.
You check Twitter, thumb through email, poke at the New York Times app to make sure we're not at nuclear war.
That means you can play Candy Crush or thumb through social media without worrying you'll eat up a ton of juice.
If you think of a trailer as being an easy-to-thumb-through comic book, "Welcome to Marwen" is an engrossing novel.
The only thing worse than not knowing if your food is overcooked is having to frantically thumb through your smartphone to find out.
Check out the gallery at the top of the page to thumb through a selection of the digital cards featured in Card Trader.
You actually learn more and more about the Dash and how to operate the earbuds as you thumb through the book-like box.
For him, experiencing the work by scrolling with a thumb through a curated news feed is not the ideal way to experiencing them.
When I use a tablet for book reading, I miss having the ability to thumb through the pages to easily compare and contrast.
Selections of these books are on view in vitrines, and visitors can likewise thumb through a number of physical copies assembled for the exhibition.
If I'm stuck on a strategy question or implementation problem for a client, I'll pick up a book and thumb through to brainstorm solutions.
We can go for a walk without our devices and we can nervously thumb through a paper book and act like we're not going through withdrawal.
"The smartphone works like a rosary": You scroll the screen like you would thumb through beads, and you confess, share, and worship via the smartphone interface.
Loveless sings in the middle of a record store as shoppers thumb through vinyl while the camera slowly backs away to reveal more of the store.
You can quickly thumb through Eco, Touring, Mountain biking, and Turbo modes while riding, with each adjusting the power delivery and torque to the displayed activity.
And sometimes, on the days I do feel a little down on myself, I thumb through her Instagram and just bask a little in her body positivity.
Goldberg interrupted our conversation to take a call, leaving me to thumb through a 1985 copy of House & Garden magazine that had been set out for me.
You can still visit it today for research and thumb through the paper piles, which live on in those cabinets, still neatly organized by anonymous but dedicated hands.
CNN was allowed exclusive access to observe the data analysts at work and to thumb through the spreadsheets that break down the trouble spots and potential problematic doctors.
The company said today that it will add a shopping tab to the Explore page, allowing you to thumb through a dedicated feed of shoppable merchandise from various sellers.
Don't mope around a maritime museum or embark on a punishing hike in hopes of pleasing your partner if you'd rather thumb through a magazine by the hotel pool.
Beyond reading the front page news, people will often pull out the sections they want to read, and then thumb through them – coming across other stories they want to read.
If Marie Kondo were to appear before you right now, grab your smartphone out of your hand and thumb through your pages of apps, what do you think she'd say?
It was quite magical for me to be able to thumb through pieces of paper that he drew on and see some of the things I thought were so iconic.
Stop for a moment to thumb through a title and you'll invariably be jostled aside by the sheer force of foot traffic as book buyers criss-cross each others' alphabetic desires.
When my sister and I were growing up in Accra in the '90s, lying on our bellies, we would thumb through the magazines our aunties who lived abroad had left behind.
While many designers thumb through vintage shop racks for inspiration, the sisters prefer to spend hours at this Highland Park institution simply chatting with its owners, Carmen Hawk and Rodney Klein.
A new feature called Map Explore will let you thumb through Snap Map updates in a more methodical way, so that you can see where your friends are and where they're traveling.
As you breathe in the aroma of incense, browse herbs, henna and kitchen supplies; thumb through books on philosophy and ayurveda; and maybe leave with a singing bowl or some cricket gear.
Even when I was no longer reading books for class, there were so many others I wanted to thumb through: moody New York novels, or old classics I'd long pretended to have read.
Down below the ashram, yoga institutes have mushroomed along the Ganges, where visitors from across the world thumb through books by Osho, smear vermilion on their foreheads and shop for chunks of crystal.
Those video ads — in which unidentified spokespeople thumb through a newspaper to praise Trump, peddle conspiracy theories about the "Deep State," and criticize "fake news" media — strike a familiar tone in the online conservative news ecosystem.
The tabloid that you thumb through while you wait to pay for your Abreva finally published its long-shelved interview with Stormy Daniels, the porn star who alleges that she had an affair with Donald Trump.
Bioz, a new search engine for life science experiments, wants to reduce the time it takes researchers to thumb through thousands of science articles published online and get them right to the findings relevant to their search.
You can fly anywhere you want in a matter of hours, or turn your love of weed into a career, or just lie in bed and thumb through the whole of humanity's collective knowledge on your phone.
"Try not to look at your paper," Su-Hui told them, and in 10 minutes, the time it takes to thumb through 100 braggy flower pictures on Instagram, everyone studied a single natural object as they filled their pages.
Known in some places as the "fig sign," the gesture of protruding the thumb through the index and middle fingers in a fist is considered vulgar in Eurasian countries, but the collective's mirrored version humorously boasts a pickle instead of a thumb.
About 262 miles south, at Laguna Beach City Hall, Aggie Dougherty had to thumb through the sample ballot packet she carried with her to remember which Democrat she had chosen after more than a dozen candidates inundated the 249th Congressional District with campaign material.
While it took a bit to thumb through the long list of your impressive extracurricular activities please thank your parents for putting this packet together and understand that it would have been far more beneficial for our staff to speak to you personally by way of an old school phone call.
Just in case neither of those pleasant fantasies pans out, you might thumb through a document released Thursday by the city's Independent Budget Office, which offers 90 ways for New York to either save money that it now spends or to collect some that it does not currently scoop up.
Earlier in the day, at Laguna Beach City Hall, Aggie Dougherty had to thumb through the sample ballot packet she carried with her to remember which Democrat she had chosen after more than a dozen candidates inundated the 48th Congressional District with campaign material in their bid to unseat Dana Rohrabacher, a particularly embattled Republican.
It's always a lot of chaotic battles that got us to the place we are; this is true of the canon in classical music, too, which is why it's been fun, as I belatedly read Pagels, to also thumb through Nicolas Slonimsky's hilarious LEXICON OF MUSICAL INVECTIVE, a compendium of all the bad reviews that great works — we're talking Beethoven's Ninth, etc.
" It's about putting power back in the people's hands, she explained, and it's a mission that even made it into the final design of Livelihood's signature hoodie: There's a reflective strip on the right wrist that when the wearer puts their thumb through a hole on the sleeve and lifts their arm, it catches the light — which Biden identified as a symbol for "the people's power.
Her lyrics take in the tiny gestures of other people's easy togetherness — "the men with one hand on the small of her back/the other casually with his thumb through the beltloop of his waistband" — on the way to a chorus that's very nearly giddy, sung in big, melodic swoops, announcing one strange development in a voice that sounds more than a little amused by it: "I think it might be finally getting to me."
As they thumb through the leather notebook, they discover a list of names, apparently of people all across the globe that possess "abilities." The name "Sylar" pops up and scrawled there is his New York address. They also find a key in the book. They make their way to his apartment.
The female branch of the abbey was probably extinct after 1200. In 1288 the head of the abbey become a provost. In 1414 the abbot was granted the right to wear the miter in liturgical celebrations. The abbey around 1700 by Michael Wening 1748 J.G. Käser painting of fighting between Deggendorf and Vilshofen during the thumb Through its history, the monastery and the town had a checkered history, suffering damage from warfare and fire.
Less than two weeks later Peters received a one-game suspension for his altercation with New York Rangers forward Colton Orr in which he intervened in a scuffle while on the bench. On January 6, 2009, Peters was involved in an incident with then Ottawa Senators forward Jarkko Ruutu, in which Peters shoved his glove into Ruutu's face during a skirmish. Ruutu then bit Peters's thumb through the glove, piercing the skin and drawing blood.
Promotional art for Day of Vengeance #3 (August 2005) featuring the Spectre fighting Captain Marvel. Art by thumb Through the Enchantress, the group, later named the Shadowpact, learn that the Spectre was being seduced and corrupted by Eclipso. They plan what is essentially a suicide mission to find the Spectre (and Eclipso), attack Eclipso with overwhelming surprise and numbers and to kill her, hoping to free the Spectre before he turns on them. As the Enchantress, Blue Devil, Ragman and Nightmaster teleport in, they happen on Captain Marvel fighting a duel of magic vs.
James H. Rand Jr. was born on November 18, 1886, to James and Mary (Jameson Scribner) Rand in North Tonawanda, New York. He was a descendant of John Rand, one of the founders of Charlestown, Massachusetts. His father, James Rand, worked in the banking industry for many years. Realizing that bank clerks had to thumb through large numbers of index cards for information, James Rand Sr. invented the first commercial system of dividers, file tabs and index cards and founded the Rand Ledger Company to manufacture the index system.
Grissom enters and comments that "at least Nick's keeping it together." Meanwhile, Mia and Sara are in the DNA lab; Mia ran the DNA from the thumb through CODIS and found a partial match to Kelly Gordon, the kidnapper's daughter, who was convicted three years previously of accessory to murder. Grissom looks up the file, and sees that the homicide took place at 625 Viking Circle—where the messenger picked up the package containing the USB key. On the evidence log, they note a styrofoam cup, which contained Kelly's DNA and sealed her conviction.
The merchant had to verify transactions over a certain currency limit by telephoning the card issuer. During the 1970s in the United States, many merchants subscribed to a regularly-updated list of stolen or otherwise invalid credit card numbers. This list was commonly printed in booklet form on newsprint, in numerical order, much like a slender phone book, yet without any data aside from the list of invalid numbers. Checkout cashiers were expected to thumb through this booklet each and every time a credit card was presented for payment of any amount, prior to approving the transaction, which incurred a short delay.
BlackBerry thumb is a neologism that refers to a form of repetitive strain injury (RSI) caused by the frequent use of the thumbs to press buttons on PDAs, smartphones, or other mobile devices. The name of the condition comes from the BlackBerry, a brand of smartphone that debuted in 1999, although there are numerous other similar eponymous conditions that exist such as "Wiiitis", "Nintendinitis", "Playstation thumb", "texting thumb", "cellphone thumb", "smartphone thumb", "Android thumb", and "iPhone thumb". The medical name for the condition is De Quervain syndrome and is associated with the tendons connected to the thumb through the wrist. Causes for the condition extend beyond smartphones and gaming consoles to include activities like golf, racket sports, and lifting.
Rick Swan reviewed Battlesystem Skirmishes for Dragon magazine #178 (February 1992). Swan declared both the second edition Battlesystem and Battlesystem Skirmishes books "flat-out gorgeous, two of the best-looking products TSR, Inc. has ever published", and that they both "make terrific guides for figure painting and are a pleasure to thumb through, even for those with only a passing interest in miniatures games". Swan felt that regarding the already existing rules from the D&D; for resolving combat between individuals, the Battlesystem Skirmishes rules "don't so much replace these procedures as streamline and amplify them", and he felt that "while it's less precise, the hit system is much easier to use in multicharacter battles than standard AD&D; combat mechanics".
Shaw joined the Australian Army in 1964 and he served in the Indonesian- Malaysia confrontation where he spent 18 months with the 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment; stationed just north of Malacca. Because he was a regular in the Army he was then sent back home to join the 2nd Royal Australian Regiment when Australia became involved in the Vietnam War. In between these two deployments he was given just one week's leave to visit Alice Springs to see his family before travelling to Vietnam on HMAS Sydney. One day, when on patrol in Vietnam, Shaw cut his thumb through to the bone on his machete and was sent back to Australia for, what was ultimately, three operations and multiple skin grafts.
This allowed four possible keys: G and F with the valve open, and D and C with the valve closed. In the 1930s, the competitive circuits allowed the valve to be unlocked, which allowed for more complex melodies to be played by each musician, instead of the melodies being split among 3 or 4 parts. The horizontal valve was still tucked under the handhold, operated by the right thumb. Through the 1940s and 1950s, corps experimented with sanding down the tuning slide to be as quick and smooth in operation as a trombone slide, to allow quick changes in tuning to reach notes within overtone series of the keys of F# and F. Combined with the piston valve, this allowed for notes within the overtone series of D and C. Many bugles were modified with a ring to allow the left hand to actuate the slip-slide tuning slide.

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