thimble in English

noun
1
a metal or plastic cap with a closed end, worn to protect the finger and push the needle in sewing.
Daily, a monitor or more advanced student, distributed to each girl in her class a pinafore to wear and a thimble , needle, thread, and materials for work.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "thimble" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "thimble", or refer to the context using the word "thimble" in the English Dictionary.

1. He had the brains of a thimble.

2. Like baling out the ocean with a thimble.

3. Won't, you see me had been bought, nuo, thimble.

4. She put a thimble over the finger when sewing.

5. The attached cartilage/ gristle (thimble) from the aitch bone is removed

6. The attached cartilage / gristle (thimble) from the aitch bone is removed.

7. The first person to find the thimble hides it the next time.

8. When it's raining gold reach for a bucket, not a thimble.

9. Agnes, open that sewing box and pass me a thimble, will you?

10. Then he saw that the little mouse was standing by his mother's thimble.

11. The surface crack is the most dangerous among crack defects of oil thimble.

12. Just like this- - just thimble of a " Downton Abbey " watching summering in the vineyard ( bleep ).

13. I'll keep their brains as a memento - if I can find a thimble small enough.

14. The Lord again dipped into the river. He held out a golden thimble studded with rubies.

15. An acceptable thimble is metal and fits snugly on the middle finger of the needle - holding hand.

16. For them, stocks are merely tokens in a game, like the thimble and flatiron in Monopoly.

17. She says she will do that to you , Wendy, every time I give you a thimble.

18. This article discusses the Daya Bay in - core flux thimble tube in - service inspection method and strategy.

19. Others, with flowers the size of the head of a needle, can easily fit inside a thimble.

20. The Phantom looks simple: A thimble is attached to a jointed arm made of black steel rods.

21. The Gilded Thimble is also committed to excellent, fair pricing, which means that most Bustles are just $25 a piece!

22. With a finger in the thimble, you push through space until you reach the surface of the computer-generated object.

23. Every Tuesday morning you forgot your thimble, every Tuesday afternoon you held out your palm for the cut of the cane.

24. Australia Outlaw Bushranger Ned Kelly Bulletproof Armour 1854-1880 Greta Cemetery Mick Jagger 1970 Film Clarissa Kaye China Souvenir Thimble CHARLES1STBOOKS

25. The town of Branford, located in New Haven County, lies next to the Long Island Sound and includes the Thimble Islands

26. Leave to cool, remove the thimble again, eliminate the solvent and repeat the trituration as above (without further addition of sand).

27. Favorite Add to Antique Leather Sewing Kit with JA Smith & Sons Needles, Cute Pincushion and Bees Wax Acorn, Stamped Bodkin, Brass Thimble GweesVintageNotions

28. Etymology can only ask why a small cuplike guard used in sewing is called a thimble, though it is put on the third finger.

29. The band performed popular skiffle songs such as "Rock Island Line" and "Walking Cane", with Starkey raking a thimble across a washboard, creating primitive, driving rhythms.

30. Anchor rodes generally consist of a long length of nylon line with an eye splice and a thimble to which is shackled a short length of galvanized chain

31. Ctenophore: 1 n biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb Synonyms: comb jelly Types: show 4 types hide 4 types beroe delicately iridescent thimble-shaped Ctenophores platyctenean Ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened

32. Bur the floggings at the gangway and the floggings through the fleet, the stealings, highway robberies, swearings, gamblings, Blasphemings, thimble-riggings, smugglings, and tipplings of a man-of-war, which throughout this narrative have been here and there sketched from the life, by no means comprise the whole catalogue of evil.

33. A clevis forming part of one end of a sheave, used for securing standing lines by means of a thimble a short line with a grommet or eye at one end and a knot at the other, used for securing spars or other gear in place Word Origin for Becket C18: of unknown origin

34. Le cartilage de l'os du Coxal est enlevé.: The attached cartilage/ gristle (thimble) from the aitch bone is removed.: Croupe : Longue, large, musclée, légèrement inclinée (l'inclinaison du Coxal est de 25º à 30º).: Croup: Long, wide, muscular, slightly sloping (Coxal inclination ranges from 25º to 30º).L'omithodore s'infecte en piquant un animal infecté et les Borrelia ingérés