How to Use thimble in a Sentence

thimble

noun

• But a witch with witches’ thimbles was no good.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
• It’s made with metal or plastic and about the size of a thimble.
  — Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 30 July 2024
• But the same can’t be said for the thimble, boot or wheelbarrow.
  — Paul Ziobro, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2017
• Even a tiny amount of VX, less than would fill a thimble, can kill.
  — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2017
• The boot got the boot, the wheelbarrow got wheeled out, and the thimble is no more.
  — Tony Hicks, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2017
• The hides come from moose, deer, and elk; the ribbons are made of silk and the thimbles and bells of brass.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2019
• This included thimbles as the tips of his fingers and a tray as a breast plate.
  — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
• Throw in chalk, a measuring tape, a thimble, and some color pins.
  — Neeti Mehra, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
• Lily gave the dresses a final once-over, then removed the thimble from her finger.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Attach a spinning or baitcasting reel to the base and load a spool of line onto the thimble.
  — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Flexibility is the strong point of a task light, a cold gel pack, a rubber thimble and a hybrid tent hammock.
  — Judi Dash, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• There’s one possible state where the molecules are crowded into the thimble.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• The novel in its spaciousness allows world enough and time for epochs to evolve, but the short story must seize in its thimble, all at once, crisis and its crux.
  — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• Flores transfers gallon jars of jalapeño verde into plastic thimbles with snap-on lids for carryout orders.
  — Mike Sutter, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
• This stylish basket contains all the essentials to finish their next sewing project, from scissors and thread to measuring tape and a thimble.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
• Meanwhile, the rest of the family is saddled with thimbles, wheelbarrows, and a single unlaced shoe.
  — Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
• Nimble is a silicone rubber finger thimble in which a tiny ceramic blade is embedded.
  — Judi Dash, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Black holes are the most massive gravitational engines in the universe, yet what most of us probably know about them could fit into a thimble.
  — Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• The Saudi’s basically just said OK, Joe, here’s your thimble of oil, now run along.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Aug. 2022
• The thimble won't be included in the newest version of the cult game, which rolls out in the fall, but that's not necessarily permanent.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 17 Feb. 2017
• 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
• Carrillo works from a Tamiami home garage full of colorful thimbles of thread, sewing machines and apparel cutouts.
  — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
• There is a level of impact harshness, however, that borders on flinty, likely the result of those low-profile tires that look like rubber bands wrapped around thimbles.
  — Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2017
• For starters, there’s Lacy’s bookcase theatre, a menagerie of small figurines posed side by side, dressed in candy wrappers and offered beverages in thimbles.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 June 2024
• The iconic board game gets a fashion twist, featuring custom cards and tokens inspired by the brand’s history, including the spool and the thimble.
  — Mecca Pryor, Essence, 13 Jan. 2026
• The humblest object in the exhibition, a golden thimble, carries the most history.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• The artifacts include silverware, keys, thimbles, rare coins and even a mysterious gold box that conservators have yet to get open.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 17 June 2018
• 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
• Home gardens may see nesting mourning dove, a covey of baby quail, or the miracle of tiny hummingbird chicks hatching from miniature eggs in a nest not much bigger than a large thimble.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
• The artifacts included thimbles, a needle remnant and buttons — in addition to animal bones that showed signs of butchering.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025