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thumb through

verb as in go over

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Example Sentences

Hank excused himself to use the bathroom, where he started to thumb through some magazines.

She used to thumb through photos of rich bankers in Russian Forbes, dreaming that one of them would marry her one day.

Burl picked up one of the books from the ship's library and started to thumb through it to locate a color chart of the planet.

To sit in an office, to thumb through papers, to bark orders, to be a machine.

The handkerchief is full of holes, and she finds that she has put her thumb through one, and her forefinger through another.

Their ears were pierced with holes I could have stuck my thumb through.

The detective loosened the folds, shook out the flounce, held it up to the light, and ran his thumb through the tear in the mesh.

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On this page you'll find 130 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to thumb through, such as: appropriate, browse, dabble, flip through, get, and glance at.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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