The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure.
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Examples for "finger"
Examples for "finger"
1All the children looked in the direction in which his finger pointed.
2Keep the thumb erect; raise the first finger of the left hand.
3A budding crisis is not the time for turf wars or finger-pointing.
4She forgot the dog in the newer interest of my wounded finger.
5The cells in the finger tips experience a sensation of burning pain.
1Iberia and emerging markets including eastern Europe and India saw double-digit growth.
2Meanwhile, Americans have seen double-digit annual increases in their health insurance costs.
3Double-digit reductions in gas and electricity prices are, however, a different matter.
4That puts Irish pensions on course for another year of double-digit returns.
5So far this year, sales are rising by a double- digit percentage.
1Nineteen children were victims of sexual assault, but only four of them had a hymenal orifice larger than one fingerbreadth.
2About three fingerbreadths, said the hostess, slapping three cups of wine down in front of us.
3And with two fingerbreadths of forehead!
4With two fingerbreadths of forehead!
1Its blade was missing, snapped off a finger's breadth from the guard.
2We saw a finger's breadth of battle area; a pin-point of army front.
3Should they swerve from them even a finger's breadth they would no longer be themselves.
4The scalding steam barely missed my eye and blistered my brow a finger's breadth above it.
5Often, they are face to face, separated by a space no wider than a finger's breadth.
6She pushed back the lid a finger's breadth and he saw the pink satin for a second.
7A break in the contact, of a finger's breadth, is as effectual as one of a mile.
8The wood was inflexible as iron and all his efforts only availed to move it one finger's breadth.
9Just think, if that cut had been only a finger's breadth lower-youwould have lost your eyes, and oh!
10He was no longer than a man's forefinger, and the blade of the hatchet at his belt was but a finger's breadth.
11Carefully sewed up in his waistband was found a letter, of a finger's breadth, written in cipher, and sealed with the Governor-General's seal.
12Only so far as the longing for the beautiful permits do even the better ones remain faithful to Nature, not a finger's breadth more.
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