fingering
Example Sentences
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He looked away, fingering a frayed edge of the carpet.
From Salon
At one point she played the piano like a harp, fingering descending chords on the keyboard but voicing them with a metallic ascendant strum — a beguiling contradiction.
From Washington Post
Increasingly, researchers are fingering a cause: chemical messengers that infected people produce called, fittingly, interferons.
From Science Magazine
“I just love how the things that were popular then keep coming back around,” she said, fingering a Geoffrey Beene blazer.
From New York Times
“The principal cellist in the orchestra at that time said, ‘Mr. Wadud, what is the fingering that you’re using for this phrase?’”
From New York Times
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