Examples of thimble in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The humblest object in the exhibition, a golden thimble, carries the most history. — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022 In the Ch4rm lookbook, male models sport square-toe dress shoes—a Russian staple—and women don denim skirts the size of a thimble. — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2021 There’s one possible state where the molecules are crowded into the thimble. — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021 Line cooks use a thimble for near constant taste tests. — Larissa Zimberoff, Wired, 17 Dec. 2020 Levi's also found a way to create its signature faded denim, by using just a thimble of water and ozone gas instead of the traditional method, which can use up to 42 liters of water. — Isabelle Gerretsen And Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 3 May 2020 Specifically, 15 wooden nesting dolls ranging in size from a tiny thimble to a Starbucks venti latte. — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2020 Unfortunately, there is no way to obtain that much power from a source that fits inside a thimble without the possibility of tragedy. — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2019 What starts with her loudly chewing ice during dinner with her in-laws quickly devolves into her ingesting increasingly physically harmful objects: a marble, a thimble, a paperclip, a thumbtack, a battery, a nail. — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 6 Mar. 2020 See More

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