fingering

Example Sentences

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Fingering a jeweled antique timepiece, she displayed it to U.S. television camera crews and warbled in accented English, "It's bea-u-tee-ful."

From Time Magazine Archive

Fingering a 105-year-old rosary that "once belonged to my grandmother," the defendant wept while his lawyer summed up before U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fingering what was left of our money, I wondered how long it would last us.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

Fingering the small wire hook on the neatly whitewashed gate which led into a yard that was green, the teacher stopped talking.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

In clear, and muddy water, too, The long-billed gentleman fishes; Our pious gentlemen we view Fingering in devils' dishes.

From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Brooks, Charles Timothy