How to Use thimble in a Sentence

thimble

noun

• The hides come from moose, deer, and elk; the ribbons are made of silk and the thimbles and bells of brass.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2019
• The boot got the boot, the wheelbarrow got wheeled out, and the thimble is no more.
  — Tony Hicks, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2017
• Even a tiny amount of VX, less than would fill a thimble, can kill.
  — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2017
• But the same can’t be said for the thimble, boot or wheelbarrow.
  — Paul Ziobro, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2017
• Line cooks use a thimble for near constant taste tests.
  — Larissa Zimberoff, Wired, 17 Dec. 2020
• Salsa: At the truck, Mario’s doles out its pulpy jalapeño verde and tangy chile de árbol by the thimble full.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Dec. 2017
• Attach a spinning or baitcasting reel to the base and load a spool of line onto the thimble.
  — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Throw in chalk, a measuring tape, a thimble, and some color pins.
  — Neeti Mehra, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
• Lily gave the dresses a final once-over, then removed the thimble from her finger.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• The Saudi’s basically just said OK, Joe, here’s your thimble of oil, now run along.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Aug. 2022
• In the Ch4rm lookbook, male models sport square-toe dress shoes—a Russian staple—and women don denim skirts the size of a thimble.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2021
• The novel in its spaciousness allows world enough and time for epochs to evolve, but the short story must seize in its thimble, all at once, crisis and its crux.
  — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• Flexibility is the strong point of a task light, a cold gel pack, a rubber thimble and a hybrid tent hammock.
  — Judi Dash, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• This stylish basket contains all the essentials to finish their next sewing project, from scissors and thread to measuring tape and a thimble.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
• The thimble won't be included in the newest version of the cult game, which rolls out in the fall, but that's not necessarily permanent.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 17 Feb. 2017
• A thimble would have contained their humility with room left over for an elephant.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 4 June 2016
• Meanwhile, the rest of the family is saddled with thimbles, wheelbarrows, and a single unlaced shoe.
  — Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
• There’s one possible state where the molecules are crowded into the thimble.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• The powder essentially falls into a cup akin to a small thimble, where it is placed into a small oven and heated to temperatures of 500ºC, and above.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 June 2018
• Black holes are the most massive gravitational engines in the universe, yet what most of us probably know about them could fit into a thimble.
  — Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• Said to be beloved by the fairies, the bluebells have a number of delightful nicknames: witches’ thimbles, lady’s nightcap, harebells, fairy flowers, crow’s toes.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
• There is a level of impact harshness, however, that borders on flinty, likely the result of those low-profile tires that look like rubber bands wrapped around thimbles.
  — Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2017
• The humblest object in the exhibition, a golden thimble, carries the most history.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• Flores transfers gallon jars of jalapeño verde into plastic thimbles with snap-on lids for carryout orders.
  — Mike Sutter, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
• Home gardens may see nesting mourning dove, a covey of baby quail, or the miracle of tiny hummingbird chicks hatching from miniature eggs in a nest not much bigger than a large thimble.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
• Levi's also found a way to create its signature faded denim, by using just a thimble of water and ozone gas instead of the traditional method, which can use up to 42 liters of water.
  — Isabelle Gerretsen and Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 3 May 2020
• Unfortunately, there is no way to obtain that much power from a source that fits inside a thimble without the possibility of tragedy.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2019
• The artifacts include silverware, keys, thimbles, rare coins and even a mysterious gold box that conservators have yet to get open.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 17 June 2018
• Artifacts found at the site, from rabbit and bird bones to mollusk shells, soldiers’ buttons, buckles, thimbles and a comb, paint a portrait of a lively hub frequented by locals and travelers alike.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 16 Oct. 2019
• Specifically, 15 wooden nesting dolls ranging in size from a tiny thimble to a Starbucks venti latte.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024