What is "thumbs-up"

Usage examples of "thumbs-up".

When she got the thumbs-up from the pilot, Mary Catherine put her hand on her hair and rolled out on to the white cross in her running shoes.

Quickly Carde checked right and left for the patrol, but the timing, again, was flawless, and rising briefly to be seen, he gave a thumbs-up sign.

As he moved off the gravity pad, he flashed a thumbs-up to Moulding, who had just shown up in the midst of the High-Speed Starflight Society cheering section—.

California does not burn oil in its power plants, but hey, committee member and commerce secretary Don Evans gave the Arctic escapade a thumbs-up.

He grinned and gave me a silent thumbs-up the Listener wouldn't notice, so he was either really on my side or one fine con man.

One of the men gave a thumbs-up that looked a lot jauntier than anyone felt.

Acknowledging Kozak's order with a thumbs-up, Paden reached over to the auxiliary radio receiver and flipped the frequency control knobs until he hit the one assigned to Ellerbee's platoon.

I give the android the thumbs-up signal again and watch as he pushes off in the moonlight, spinning once, then steadying the sled expertly with his short ice hammer, chips flying, and then hurtling over the brink and out of sight for a minute.

Over in the Master ship Byrne settled himself into the uncomfortable chair in front of the computer control panel, hit the power switch, then, after a smile and a thumbs-up signal to Tiala, which she returned by showing him her crossed fingers, used his remote control unit to start the program running back in the computer aboard the Kassala.

The traffic signal on the fence changed from a flashing red to green, Vincenti flipped the flight controlstnay function knob to NAV, armed his ejection seat, turned on the taxi light and released brakes, received final clearance from his crew chief, and shot out of the alert hangar, snapping a return salute and a thumbs-up to his crew chief.

He knew she'd seen his upraised hand, she made a thumbs-up gesture and crouched to run, her hand along the vine that would take her over the cliff and into sanctuary.