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Example Sentences

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For each featured book, there’s a thumbnail portrait of its author, an image of the cover and one or two other intriguing visuals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

There's also a historian who tracked his thumbnail growth for 35 years, and physics researchers exploring the mysteries of pasta sauce.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025

I look for the jade plant in front of our apartment building, whose leaves I would press with my thumbnail while waiting for my parents to come downstairs.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

I chose to experience it on Apple’s podcast app, where its thumbnail art still features sinister pandemic imagery.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2024

He was using a thumbnail to pry off the body lice, working slowly, carefully depositing the lice in a blue USO envelope.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien