Example Sentences

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I passed out thimbles of sake I brought to share and noticed a woman sitting next to Alex.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

My youngest child and I pluck the red thimbles on summer mornings.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2022

Musicians shouted and whispered in addition to playing their instruments, from which they drew eerie sounds by bowing on the underside of the strings and wearing thimbles on their fingers.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022

The pasta customarily used to make the beloved Italian soup pasta e fagioli is ditalini, which roughly translates to "little thimbles."

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2022

In a drugstore she buys a Timex watch for her father-in-law, Bic pens for her cousins, embroidery thread and thimbles for her mother and her aunts.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri