thumbprints in English
noun
1
an impression or mark made on a surface by the inner part of the top joint of the thumb, especially as used for identifying individuals from the unique pattern of whorls and lines.
The library includes new technology which means children can borrow a book by putting their thumb on to a machine which recognises their individual thumbprints .
Use "thumbprints" in a sentence
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1. Chocolaty Caramel Thumbprints Chocolaty Caramel Thumbprints
2. When we started our school the parents would give thumbprints in the attendance register.
3. Take it up reverently... for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. "
4. 9 There was no real religion, at home or in school, so Erica had never noticed the gray thumbprints on Ash Wednesday, on the foreheads of the old and the Polish.