Concise, as a sketch

Usage examples of thumbnail.

A shop selling thumbnail holo sets and basketwork had blocked part of the curb with a towering pillar of baskets.

Monsieur Bianchi had patiently pushed aside masses of banal quartz, chalk or feldspar, feeling at any less banal pebble with his yellow thumbnail, lifting up his glasses and squinting because of the smoke from his maize-papered cigarette that was always in his scruffy mouth: his razorblades were as stale as his toothbrush.

Within were twin eardrops, cabochon-cut rubies the size of a thumbnail, set in chased silver.

It was grimed from working with his mother in the hydroponic garden, transplanting mutant seedlings, and the thumbnail was broken.

Under it, suspended in a wire micromount, was a glittering jewel the size of his thumbnail.

In a row which he had taken great pains to make straight, but which was nevertheless crooked because the paper was unlined, eight, twelve, thirteen, fourteen unequally flattened circles and on every kidney a wartlike knob, and from each wart a bar the length of a thumbnail, projecting beyond the lopsided boiler toward the left edge of the paper.

They rocked along in a jangle of light past appliance shops with Aztec temples painted on their facades, bodegas clubs souvenir shops, their bright windows aglitter with crystal crosses gilt madonnas rhinestone eagle knives flashing in miles of red midnight, little stucco caves with corrugated iron doors rolled partway down, interiors littered with every form of cheapness: mirrors with ornate tin frames, torrero capes with airbrushed scenes from the Plaza del Toros, sombreros festooned with embroidery and bits of broken mirror, switchblades with dragons worked in gold paint you could scrape off with your thumbnail.

He scraped at it with his thumbnail, hoping that Aziz was within range, just as Awad finished fumbling at the door latch and burst into the bedroom.

He tore a sheet from the note pad provided by the Byrrh distributors and wrote something on it before folding it two times, sharpening the creases with his thumbnail.

I flick off its endcaps with my thumbnail as I raise it to peer through the eyepiece.

CHAPTER 4 THE GOLD HOARDER ON THE drive out to the Chine estate, Gillian gave Dale Torrent a thumbnail sketch of the situation.

The entire thing barely covered his thumbnail, but its biomimetic design allowed it to fly about undetected, letting its operator hear and see everything its sensors could pick up, from up to ten thousand meters away.

The entire thing barely cov ered his thumbnail, but its biomimetic design allowed it to fly about undetected, letting its operator hear and see everything its sensors could pick up, from up to ten thousand meters away.

They were not rooms with hot and cold running water, and I half-filled the old-fashioned washbowl, with its faded flowers at the bottom and big thumbnail chippings round the rim, before I had finished.

Gareth offered the seal on the new pack for inspection, then split it with his thumbnail and unwrapped the pristine cards with their bicycle-wheel designs, fanned them, lifted the jokers and began to shuffle, at the same time starting a very funny and obscene story about a bishop who entered the women's rest room at Choring Cross Station in error.