How to Use forefinger in a Sentence

forefinger

noun

• Use your thumb and forefinger to flick the paint on the paper.
  — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Woman's Day, 24 Feb. 2023
• Place your hand on one edge of the skin, and using your thumb and forefinger, pinch the edge of the skin and lift it off the meat.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• Use the thumb and forefinger that are holding the knife to carefully push the pit off the knife.
  — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2020
• Grab the seedling betwixt thumb and forefinger and pull it.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
• The face of a lion is etched along her right forefinger in fine inky lines.
  — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
• Grip them around the back of the head placing your thumb and forefinger on the back side of each pectoral fin.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
• The ball struck his thumb and forefingers and tumbled toward the turf.
  — Chuck Schilken, latimes.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Some of the demonstrators and many of the protest’s leaders held out their thumb and forefinger in the shape of the letter L.
  — Vanessa Garcia, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• Adam made a circle with his thumb and forefinger the size of a quarter.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 24 Apr. 2020
• To do this grasp the rope between your thumb and forefinger and give a twist clockwise.
  — Andrew Northshield, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2018
• Raise your thumb and forefinger and leave just a sliver of light between the two.
  — oregonlive, 8 July 2022
• Use your thumbnail to pierce the skin at the top, then squeeze out the bright, spring-green bean using your thumb and forefinger.
  — Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2021
• Pick beans and peas by hand by pinching stems with your thumb and forefinger.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2017
• By snapping the strings of a new guitar with his thumb and forefinger and adding a clarinet part, Post nailed the score.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• To test that they are not overcooked, place a bean between thumb and forefinger and pinch.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• Have a friend stand 40 feet away from you with the swivel clenched between his thumb and forefinger.
  — Mark Hicks, Field & Stream, 22 June 2020
• Holding the side of the dough closest to you, use your thumb and forefinger to make two folds towards the center seal.
  — Hetty McKinnon, Bon Appétit, 11 Apr. 2021
• Hold the knife so that the thumb and forefinger are in front of the bolster (the junction between the handle and the blade) and resting directly on the side of the blade.
  — Katy Severson, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2021
• Next, with a few expert flicks of her thumb and forefingers, Lopez demonstrates how to deglove the tail.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 8 Feb. 2020
• The fact of life is that lots of dads say stupid things, but not all dads have the internet between their thumb and forefinger 24/7.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 23 June 2017
• Now touch your left thumb and forefingers together and touch that pad of flesh again.
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 25 Apr. 2023
• Three fingers were gone, stubs now, his right hand a pincer of thumb and forefinger.
  — Tim Requarth, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2019
• At the creek, Ziemkiewicz plucked a square stalk with blue flowers growing among the flat blades of grass, and spun it in between his thumb and forefinger.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• To pinch a plant, remove the growing tip of a stem by nipping it between your thumb and forefinger.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2022
• The oblong chip—about the size of a grain of rice—is implanted between a person's thumb and forefinger, and costs about $300.
  — Barb Darrow, Fortune, 24 July 2017
• For dumbbell curls, that means holding the handle of the dumbbell so that your thumb and forefinger are touching the weight.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 23 Apr. 2022
• Tricoche spent the first two days after the 6th taking care of a hand so black and blue, so swollen, that his thumb could not meet his forefinger.
  — New York Times, 4 Jan. 2022
• Slip your forefinger through the circular part of the tool, grab it with your thumb, and use it to pull open doors or press buttons at an ATM.
  — Popular Science, 7 July 2020
• With thumb and forefinger, gently pinch dough so that sides of the tart extend about ¼ inch above edge of pan, with an even thickness all the way up and around.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2017
• With this gesture, the forefinger and thumb touch to create a circle and the other three fingers are straight.
  — Vanessa Van Edwards, CNN, 12 May 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024