How to Use middle finger in a Sentence

middle finger

noun
  • Place your thumb on the bottom of the plunger and your index and middle fingers on the base of either side of the nozzle.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Jackson added pieces of the bill that displayed the number 100 to the thumbnail and middle finger.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 26 Oct. 2023
  • To them Roger Goodell gives the middle finger, in return for what?
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
  • At one point in the series, Thing gives a character the middle finger.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And the middle finger is not what the American people want.
    ABC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • At one point, he was called to the actor’s house because Depp had severed the top of his middle finger.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The girl counts to 10 before flashing her handlers the middle finger.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Willis said Civale, who missed a big part of last season with a injury to the middle finger of his right hand, is healthy.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 14 May 2022
  • Kaprielian had a laceration near the nail of his right middle finger that was enough for the A’s to scratch him.
    John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Sep. 2022
  • A lot of people think my big goal is to alienate people and to give them a big middle finger.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Where her three middle fingers should be, there are only tiny stumps that have no bones.
    Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • As Rodriguez left, the suit says, Lizzo raised both her middle fingers and yelled a slur.
    Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Ohtani left the mound in Tuesday's start because of a blister on his right middle finger.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
  • For effect, Barker added the middle finger emoji at the end.
    Glamour, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Fans flew middle fingers into the cloudless sky, a regional salute to the haters in tow.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2023
  • There were pins of peace, pins of war and even a few pins giving a diplomatic middle finger.
    Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Two men who had come from nearby Dallas kissed for the cameras and raised a middle finger.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2022
  • One aggrieved council member soon likened the masts of the yacht to a giant middle finger, pointed at the city.
    New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • The cape had a tight sleeve that turned into a glove around her middle finger and was composed of vintage lace.
    Shelby Wax, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Herbert suffered an injury to his left middle finger near the end of the third quarter.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The suspect saw the woman and raised his middle finger at her, a gesture people in the area clearly saw.
    cleveland, 8 July 2022
  • His avatar features him giving the middle finger to the camera.
    Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
  • As if the message was not already clear enough, the single art is a blurry snap of the singer throwing up the middle finger with glee.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 July 2022
  • And cramping in his right middle finger limited him to four innings in his start on Aug. 3 against the Mariners.
    Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • One of them is the upstroke—almost picture a bassist, with their index and middle finger.
    Ryan Dombal, Pitchfork, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Take your right hand and wrap it around your head so that your middle finger touches your left ear; reach your left hand down toward the ground.
    Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Bredar and his wife refused them, and the pair became hostile, with one of them giving the middle finger to Bredar’s wife, the report said.
    Jessica Anderson, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2022
  • At one point in the second quarter Herbert had the splint ripped off his fractured left middle finger.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
  • McGill gave the middle finger to the former student through FaceTime in that photo.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Her middle finger had the largest ring, which covered her entire finger and nail.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 16 May 2022

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