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"forefinger" Definitions
  1. the finger next to the thumb

145 Sentences With "forefinger"

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" She nods emphatically, and holds up an elegant forefinger. "But.
And,' he continues, jabbing his forefinger repeatedly into the chart.
"Some of them mean this"—he circled his thumb and forefinger.
She held up her forefinger and thumb and rubbed them together.
"At the start, I couldn't move my thumb and forefinger," she said.
This means you can use either, say, your forefinger or your thumb.
I squeezed my thumb and forefinger back and forth as I breathed.
He rolled the pointy tip of his beard between his thumb and forefinger.
Then he held up one hand and put his thumb and forefinger together.
With my thumb and forefinger covered with Kleenex, I pop them out of existence.
He pinched his forefinger and thumb to indicate that the first word was short.
A headscarfed woman in the boat waved her forefinger, a baby on board wailed.
He uses his thumb and forefinger to describe a divot discovered during his inspection.
KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban cut off Safiullah Safi's right forefinger for voting in 2014.
No no, I said, wagging my forefinger, I didn't want them to spend their money.
Some Ladies flashed back the L sign for "Liberty," formed by a thumb and forefinger.
She captures the area between a forefinger and thumb, or the calluses of someone's hands.
If your forefinger isn't on the trigger, for example, Touch intuits that you're pointing it outward.
"What matters is how you think, your intelligence," he added, tapping his forefinger against his temple.
" He made a gun out of his thumb and forefinger, and said, "I would have—boom!
"I am opposed to raising the retirement age," Putin said in 222, waving his forefinger decisively.
"I am opposed to raising the retirement age," Putin said in 29, waving his forefinger decisively.
Though he spoke in a patrician drawl, one forefinger thoughtfully patrolling his chin, he was no snob.
When asked what he thinks of Mr Macron, one gilet jaune pulls his forefinger across his throat.
On social media feeds, he sometimes uses an emoji of a raised forefinger, the universal jihadist salute.
Before Dan ducked his oversize head out of the car, he squeezed his clammy forefinger around mine.
"Well, let me tell you something," Mr. Schiff went on, his forefinger jabbing the air for emphasis.
He performed a sanded-down version of his campaign persona — the thumb-and-forefinger circles, little riffs.
Now we can find seemingly any answer to anything with a few taps of the thumb and forefinger.
The canal came "this close" to losing much more, says an executive, holding his thumb and forefinger together.
He extracted a Ziploc bag pinched between his thumb and forefinger, opened it, and withdrew a U.S. passport.
Participating employees will have the chips, which use near field communication (NFC) technology, implanted between their thumb and forefinger.
These are the parts of the brain that would have been stimulated when, for example, the forefinger touched something.
With this gesture, the forefinger and thumb touch to create a circle and the other three fingers are straight.
Using what resembled linked thimbles on both his thumb and forefinger, the architect began turning his hand in the air.
On the drive back to their apartment, Sara examined the samples, rubbing the soft fabrics between her thumb and forefinger.
Challenged to eat some nutraloaf, he sniffs, pulls a face, takes a little between thumb and forefinger, swallows and gags.
I could almost hear the little clicks of his green counting beads as he rotated them between thumb and forefinger.
The engineers found that keeping this forefinger very stiff came closest to approximating how a human would play the notes.
"We're about that close," Shelby said Tuesday, holding up his thumb and forefinger to signal a couple inches of space.
She reached for it and picked it up between her thumb and forefinger and mashed the lit end into the metal.
John, 31, was shirtless in the heat, black hair gathered into a loose ponytail, a bandage wrapped around his left forefinger.
His cough was rasping, his thighs as thin as his calves, and a thumb and forefinger could practically encircle his ankles.
He blinked and twisted his lip like he was having a stroke, then held his thumb and forefinger like a pistol.
"The door for Russia is not even cracked open right now," Arena said, holding his thumb and forefinger together for effect.
BAGHDAD — Holding the rose stem between forefinger and thumb, the shy 18-year-old knew his gift had to be secret.
I placed my mouth on his and put my thumb and forefinger on his abdomen and started breathing on his mouth.
The implanted chip is about the size of grain of rice and is inserted between the thumb and forefinger under the skin.
Using your dry thumb and forefinger, draw the edges of the wrapper together and pinch the center, leaving the ends open. 6.
Approach swiftly from the rear and, barehanded (gloves make you clumsy), squeeze just behind the snake's jawbone using your thumb and forefinger.
" Meena touched her lightly on the shoulder to try to calm her down, put a forefinger to her lips and said, "Shh.
With its forefinger extended, the hand points beyond the edge of the work; it is strong and authoritative but dwarfed in scale.
Van Halen's symbol lives on her forefinger, and the word "BAD," a reference to Michael Jackson's hit album and single, adorns her wrist.
So she stood there, folding the ticket between her thumb and forefinger, for what felt like an eternity, until the client looked away.
The reader is exactly in the central position it ought to be, and you easily find it with the forefinger of either hand.
When he was fingerprinting Prevatte, Allen said he noticed a cut in the web of his right hand between his thumb and forefinger.
Aichou's bestselling winter gloves have special pads on the thumb, forefinger, and middle finger that will allow you to use your phone comfortably. 
Finally, you can enlarge a Web page — or an e-mail message, or a photo — by spreading your thumb and forefinger on the glass.
The microphone buzzes and snaps as Sanders delivers his impassioned critique of income inequality, jabbing his forefinger in the air to punctuate the outrage.
The chip, which costs $300 per implant, is inserted with a needle between the thumb and forefinger and "barely hurts at all," he said.
The grip is pinched "clawlike" by the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, and used to guide the stroke in a pendulum arc.
In Ruilova's short film, Immoral Tales, a disembodied forefinger rubs and penetrates a pair of open lips to sounds of a woman's heavy breathing.
He scans each product with a device mounted on his forefinger and puts it into one of 20173 blue crates stacked on a large trolley.
"In every single dictator there is a speck of morality," he said, leaning across the table and pressing his thumb and forefinger together for emphasis.
I girded myself to watch but was defeated as the hand paused now and then and, with a thumb and a forefinger, enlarged horrific details.
The surgeon then cuts at your perineum, and either cuts the bladder or massages the stone out of the bladder with his forefinger and thumb.
He's having trouble eating the bar all at once and it slips partially out of his mouth, so he pushes it back in with a forefinger.
Using her forefinger and middle finger, Achilleos continued to press the skin firmly above my top lip 10 times, releasing for a few seconds in between.
Ms. Bernhardt renders E.T. single and large, like an icon, often outlined in gold or silver spray paint and frequently raising his glowing forefinger in benediction.
Charles, a seasoned pointer, has put his forefinger on display countless times over the years, and it seems little George is quickly following in his royal footsteps.
The video builds to a shot of two young people making an "OK" gesture by joining thumb and forefinger and then looking through it like a spyglass.
The hand holds a brush at a diagonal, between index and forefinger, on the right, while the edge of an empty canvas peeks out on the left.
They were hardly a brotherly and sisterly bunch: The one he held around the neck by his thumb and forefinger had probably eaten several of his siblings.
Another student in the front row is making the O.K. sign with his right forefinger and thumb, a hand gesture that has been adopted by white nationalists.
With no English to speak of, he spent his days drawing manga, flipping the pages in his notebook between his forefinger and thumb, watching the drawings come alive.
Then Mr Bychkov produces a facsimile of Tchaikovsky's annotated score, and, jabbing excitedly with his forefinger at the composer's stress-markings, shows how physically tortured the finale is.
"I carry all the time, and I watch people, and I've learned to pay attention," Dolgener says, gesturing with her forefinger to emphasize how closely she watches people.
Curl the fingers of your non-dominate hand into a loose flat fist and place a wrapper on top of the circle formed by your forefinger and thumb.
Bronzed duck tongues are fried but somehow still lithe, each a forefinger in length, a veil of meat over spongy fat with a nub of cartilage waiting inside.
The tiny chip, which uses RFID technology or Radio-Frequency Identification, can be implanted between the thumb and forefinger "within seconds," according to a statement from the company.
Instead, Sherman allegedly "cupped the victim's right breast with his right forefinger and thumb with only the thin skin-tight fabric in between her breast" and his fingers.
She took a sacrificial pipette from her inside jacket pocket, peeled open the paper to reveal the glass, and, in a reprieve between lurches, stabbed herself in the forefinger.
Clinton's subpar reviews could be the result of how she carried herself on the stage, clenching her thumb against her forefinger while speaking and looking down more than usual.
While it reliably detects my thumb and forefinger, it sometimes does things like mistake my pinkie for my ring finger unless I consciously keep my hands in the right place.
The strain on the face of the powerfully built community leader, Ibo, is evident as he pulls on a cigarette, his other hand rolling prayer beads between thumb and forefinger.
"We always have a bullet ready to use on ourselves in case we are about to be taken prisoner," she said, rolling a Kalashnikov round between her thumb and forefinger.
Mets 3, Brewers 2 Terry Collins pounded his forefinger against the tabletop that served as a lectern during his news conference Friday afternoon and curled his lip into a sneer.
Inevitably he'll break off a hair or two between his fingers, rubbing it between thumb and forefinger, examining it and trying to figure out where to put it (ew, gross!!!).
Then my mother gave me a few inches of bright red ribbon to keep in my pocket, to rub between my thumb and forefinger, and the whole business resolved itself.
"In my view, there is nothing more dangerous than an unethical president who believes they are above the law," said Schiff, jabbing at the air with his forefinger for emphasis.
The character is advised by a political counselor formed, à la Señor Wences, from Mr. Libertini's lipsticked thumb and forefinger; he also owns a vast collection of paintings on black velvet.
This one's a speedy surgery — all Dr. Lee has to do is squeeze each bump between her thumb and forefinger, and a buttery string of pus spills out of the skin.
To get around this I had to either pinch the sides with my thumb and forefinger, hold it from the bottom, or rest the Aura One in both of my hands.
The prosecution presented a great deal of testimony about a small cut on Noura's left hand, covered with adhesive tape between her thumb and forefinger, on the morning Jackson was killed.
Robert reached up and scooped her breast out of her bra, so that it jutted half in and half out of the cup, and rolled her nipple between his thumb and forefinger.
Genevieve: I have to admit, during that moment with Elizabeth and Philip in the hotel room, I was keeping one eye on Elizabeth's thumb and forefinger as she began canoodling with Philip.
Here, the bricks essentially function as the invaders' shields, while you maneuver the Vaus to reflect their shots, using your thumb or forefinger to drag it across the bottom of the screen.
After she was broken at love in the first game of the second set, Duval ran her forefinger across her throat and walked toward the net, signaling the end of the match.
That he was vexed was evidenced by the way he held up his hand, thumb and forefinger into the shape of an O which almost exactly mirrored the shape of his mouth.
After the talk, she met Matthew at a diner and he was so darn sympathetic and understanding that she had to use the thumb-and-forefinger technique Elizabeth taught her last week.
"There are no humans on Mars," NASA spokesman Guy Webster told the Daily Beast on Thursday, presumably releasing an exhausted sigh while pinching the bridge of his nose between thumb and forefinger.
He put his forefinger to his lips to shush the crowd in imitation of Patrick Reed, who used the same gesture in Scotland as a Ryder Cup rookie on enemy soil in 2014.
On his body was one prominent wound, other than the one from the arrowhead: a deep cut in his right hand between the thumb and forefinger, down to the bone and potentially disabling.
We encourage Christian voters to draw a small red cross on their forefinger and proudly display it as a demonstration and reminder of our commitment to choose our leaders by voting in this election.
You can reassign the two "function" buttons to perform specific tasks like changing the ISO or locking the exposure, or you can even change the purpose of the dials above your thumb and forefinger.
One student in the front row is making the O.K. sign with his right forefinger and thumb, a hand gesture that has been adopted by white nationalists and is often used to troll liberals.
"He will fight corruption and establish a just state and continue the process of the revolution," said fishmonger and Saied voter Noureddine el-Arabi, proudly showing the inky forefinger that proved he had voted.
On the last day of Grindfest, I slipped into Tibbetts' old repurposed dental chair and gritted my teeth as he prepared to plant a tiny RFID chip into the webbing between my thumb and forefinger.
The contoured controllers fit firmly in the palm, guiding your forefinger over a springy trigger and curling the rest of your fingers around a large lower grip button that depresses when you make a fist.
I felt my limbs press into the chair and then into floor below—I couldn't bear to move even when Angelo asked us to place our thumb and forefinger together in an A-OK sign.
"Take your forefinger, middle finger, and thumb — like a crab pincer — then press these to the skin and sweep down the nose bone, then outwards to the cheekbones or up to the temples," she said.
Mr. Ilagan, on the other hand, strode around the stage, pumping his fist and once pausing, theatrically, to make a mean face, point a forefinger in the air and then jab it toward the ground.
The thumb has turned blue (from the string tied around it?); there's a circular Band-Aid plastered on the knuckle of the ring finger, and a bloody bandage wrapped around the tip of the forefinger.
Etiquette expert Myka Meier told People the proper way to hold a teacup involves pinching the top of the handle with your thumb and forefinger, and resting the bottom of the handle on your middle finger.
There, Mr. Trump raises a lone index finger; he pinches together forefinger and thumb; and he unleashes a quick, openhanded karate-chop, like a conductor of an angry orchestra or a man swatting away a wasp.
That little wagging forefinger has been seen at various sporting events and awards shows, including the 2018 Grammys when Blue shut parents Jay-Z and Bey the heck down when they clapped during Camila Cabello's moving speech.
Invented in the 1980s by German gunsmith Peter Fortner, the repeater allows the shooter's hand to remain on the grip and reload with the thumb and forefinger, giving the athletes greater speed and more stability when shooting.
Love set Cashew on a nearby perch and with the thumb and forefinger of both hands took hold of each wing by the tip and moved them up and down a few times as though priming a pump.
SebastiAn says that early on in the process, she brought him a thick notebook—widening his thumb and forefinger just about as far as they'll go to illustrate its size—full of thoughts and quasi-poems she'd scrawled.
Implanting an RFID chip is relatively simple: a tiny glass object about the size of a grain of rice is injected into the soft part of the hand between the thumb and forefinger—it's as easy as drawing blood.
Implanting an RFID chip is relatively simple: a tiny glass object about the size of a grain of rice is injected into the soft part of the hand between the thumb and forefinger – it's as easy as drawing blood.
" If she and I were standing face at that point, I would have been tempted to lift up my t-shirt, grab some adipose tissue betwixt my forefinger and thumb and ask: "Then what's up with this shit, Julie?
They each had the inky forefinger that showed they had voted, and were united in concern at the poor level of public services in a local economy based on growing olives, vegetables and fruit, though they supported different candidates.
What Alli does with his hands looks simple enough — but it turns out making an "ok" sign with your thumb and forefinger, turning it upside-down, and then letting it rest around your eye is actually harder than it seems.
The front page shows Trump jabbing his forefinger at Jim Acosta, CNN's senior White House correspondent and -- full disclosure -- my friend and colleague, as Acosta asks a question and a White House aid reaches to take the microphone from him.
When he was young, Richard wanted to be a surgeon, but while in high school he lost the forefinger and parts of the middle finger and thumb on his left hand after accidentally blowing up a chemistry lab in his basement at home.
To that end, they are circulating a pamphlet, in Piraeus and other areas of Greece with impromptu migrant camps, showing the beaming face of a child, a man using thumb and forefinger to show a loveheart and a boy munching a banana.
Safi's act of defiance in Afghanistan's 2019 presidential elections on Saturday sparked admiration after a photo of the 38-year old was posted on Twitter showing his missing right forefinger and the left one stained with indelible ink, indicating he had voted.
Sticking your forefinger into the opening of a rabbit hole might usually result in a nibble at best, a lost digit at worst; but here, it'll flush out the furry critters, and you'll want to keep your eyes out for the black one.
The hand cycles through a pattern of grips that open and close on command: One grip is designed to hold something between thumb and forefinger, such as a credit card or key; another makes a pointing gesture; one even forms a pretty serious-looking fist.
Boran Kim posted a photo to Instagram on Sunday of the patriotic fingernail art that she's sporting in support of her 17-year-old daughter: an American flag on her left forefinger and a Korean flag on her right, a nod to the teen's dual heritage.
Flecks of blood and scales loosen, as if turning to rainbows in his hands, as he picks up the fish and breaks its neck, feels the minute rim of teeth inside its jaw on the pad of his forefinger, puts his thumb behind the head and snaps.
Because I can't voluntarily close my eyelids fully, I have to either hold my eyelids closed with my right forefinger and thumb until they stay shut, or lie on my back with a cotton tank top laid over my eyes in such a way that their lids are sealed.
The very first to do so, the test pilot Jack Waddell, described it as "a pilot's dream" and a "two-finger airplane" — one that can be flown with just the forefinger and thumb on the control wheel; it is hard to imagine higher praise for such an enormous aircraft.
At home in Brooklyn, a few days after the group's two-night New School stand, Mr. Weiss showed off a battle scar: a patch of raw, red skin between his left thumb and forefinger, the result of thwacking his snare with peak force while using a jazz drummer's traditional stick grip.
A virtual digient can be downloaded into a physical body, and there's a touching scene in which one such digient, Jax, approaches his human mentor, Ana, startled to see "little hairs" on her arms: Jax brings up a hand and extends a thumb and forefinger to grab some of the hairs.
In the early hours of a July morning, she picked up a newly landed shark by its tail, plonked it onto the dock and cheerfully inserted her forefinger into its mouth, peering inside to inspect the teeth – a trick for classifying a specimen more accurately, especially if fishermen have lopped off the fins.
In "Palm Reader" (2017), a red triangle nestles in the top left-hand corner, while a red,  finger-like form enters diagonally from the top  right, and a large, Myron Stout-like form, which  can be read as a thumb and part of the forefinger spans  the  bottom half from left to right.
According to the directions of the piece, she tapped the bottom of the triangle at a mostly steady tempo and intensity until the end, when she gradually slowed down and got quieter; she damped the triangle with the thumb and forefinger of her right hand, moving it slowly up and down the right side.
And I didn't want to tell them about the day my parents and teachers finally caught me twirling my hair, the black hair that was so unlike the beautiful blond hair I wanted, twisting it around and around the first joint of my forefinger so tightly I couldn't free it without yanking a few strands out.
I'm back in socks and hard shoes for the first time in 10 days, my hands nicked up from fishing line and bramble cuts, the callus on my forefinger from how I hold my chef's knife throbbing over the keyboard I haven't touched in a week, with memories of great, unscripted, recipe-free vacation meals bright in my mind.
The two remaining large photos are titled rather ambiguously — "Caron," a downward-pointing chevron taking up most of the middle and ring fingers as well as the tips of the pinky and index finger, and "Up Tack," in which a minty off-white covers the thumb and forefinger, seeming to shear them off from the rest of the hand.
This played out subtly in song after song, including "As Camélias do Quilombo do Leblon," a buoyant new collaboration; "Terra," which Mr. Veloso composed from a prison cell; and "Sampa," a lilting ode to São Paulo that he sang with haunting deliberation, while Mr. Gil played softly thumping percussion with a thumb and forefinger on the body of his guitar.
Other times, they are more vicious and mean, like the sequence where she's in a bathtub full of jewels (valued at $12 million), making a gun with her thumb and forefinger, which seems to mirror the scene described by Kim Kardashian last October in Paris when she was robbed of her diamonds at gunpoint while the captors forced her into a bathtub.
This time he was wearing a mask, and so was Rosa Hinojosa and so was the mule, who kept guiding him down the corridors with a stiff forefinger till they went through a door and briefly out into the sunlight before entering an outbuilding that looked like one of the temporary classrooms you saw when you went by the high school.

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