Hitched (a ride)

Usage examples of thumbed.

He handed the notebook over to Becker, who thumbed through it briefly and then placed it inside his briefcase.

He snapped the clip out of the weapon and thumbed the square rounds of caseless ammunition out.

He thumbed through until he found the cryptogram and held the open pages up for Claridon to see.

He thumbed through to the section on plonks and unbuttoned his jacket and checked his curdler while he read it.

I showed her the flatscreen, thumbed the backup button until I had the image Dak had pirated into the NASA data stream.

Whose tough, enisled, self-centred, kindless craft Has tracked me, springed me, thumbed me by the throat, And made herself the means of mangling me!

I got the impression Lieutenant Admiral Festina Ramos thumbed her nose at regulations whenever she had the chance.

He wound up the windows against the burnt-sugar smell of Gasohol exhaust, and thumbed a Counting Crows CD into the player.

Sinking back against the rucked-up earth, Kirk thumbed the primer on one of the gauss rifles and lifted it slowly to his shoulder.

He had gotten out a box to put the book in, and then, because he hated to wrap presents even more than he hated to read, he had thumbed to the first page, thinking he would scan a little of it to see what it was about.

He thumbed the comm link inside the helmet, not knowing if the umbilical would still carry his message to the surface, much less to the Hawkbill or the Rushmore.

He thumbed the tiny black hexahedron and a series of three-dimensional images popped into the room.

He thumbed with appreciation the Lectionary and took down the censer and incense boat and spoon and counted the candles and candlesticks.

He handed the padd to Drex, who took it, thumbed it, then looked at Klag.

Worf thumbed the padd over to the appropriate report and handed it to Tiral.