How to Use thumbs-up in a Sentence
thumbs-up
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Tagged to the end of her text: a thumbs-up and sparkly heart emoji.
— Melissa Giannini, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024 -
Then there’s the quiet ones who will give a thumbs-up or a heart emoji.
— Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023 -
Barry gives the kit the thumbs-up for how quickly children can dive in and play.
— Korin Miller, wsj.com, 15 Nov. 2023 -
With that, the student gave a thumbs-up and skateboarded off.
— Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 July 2023 -
President Biden and Obama gave the campaign to make D.C. the 51st state a thumbs-up.
— Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 22 July 2024 -
In the middle of the photo, Garcetti is smiling, giving two thumbs-ups.
— Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024 -
The first time a photo of me appeared in The New York Times, my father sent a thumbs-up emoji.
— Adam Tendler, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023 -
Look for a break in the heat waves, the first crisp morning, or the last true summer storm to give you the thumbs-up to hang a fall wreath on your front door.
— Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 1 Sep. 2023 -
Yet when people see soldiers pass, many clap or give them a thumbs-up.
— Annie Correal Federico Rios, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024 -
Folks in cars were honking horns and giving thumbs-ups and waving.
— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2024 -
The thumbs-up that Trump gave while posing for the cameras wasn’t respectful.
— Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Sep. 2024 -
Video shows that Biden at one point walked toward a group of parachutists who had just landed and gave them two thumbs-up.
— David Ingram, NBC News, 19 June 2024 -
In the photo, Connor gave a thumbs-up to the camera and wore some nice golfing attire.
— Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 29 June 2024 -
Demonstrators stopped him for a photo or gave him a thumbs-up.
— Constant Méheut, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023 -
In the first snap, Zendaya is dressed in full snorkeling gear, giving a thumbs-up to the camera.
— Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023 -
Before the ambulance left the field, Harris was able to motion a thumbs-up signal to the crowd.
— Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023 -
The boy had terrible burns on his face, Elder said, but despite the pain would lift his arm to give a thumbs-up.
— Niha Masih, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024 -
Garcetti stands next to the two men and others, smiling and giving a double thumbs-up gesture.
— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023 -
There are dozens and dozens of big thumbs-ups from happy customers, but your eye keeps landing on the few cranky complaints.
— Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 21 June 2024 -
Just a simple thumbs-up and silence to mark another day’s work.
— Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024 -
After waiting in line, Mr. Biden gave a thumbs-up to election workers at 12:23 p.m. ET.
— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2024 -
By the end of the track, V gives all the performers a thumbs-up for a job well done and jokingly collapses into his seat.
— Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023 -
After each player gave the thumbs-up, the crowd at Roland-Garros booed Kasatkina.
— Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023 -
Where my head of white hair as seen on TV when right-handed batters were up, got me thumbs-ups in the produce section at the grocery store.
— Ellen Murphy, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024 -
The post featured an image of Snoopy doing a thumbs-up in front of a voting box while standing next to the American flag.
— Saba Hamedy, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024 -
But the only suite with a line out the door is the one where Trump stands behind a black-clothed barrier, posing for thumbs-up pictures with fans.
— Time, 21 Aug. 2023 -
As the infant wails, the mother flashes an exhausted thumbs-up.
— Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2024 -
And for Adam to come over and give us the thumbs-up on a creative decision for the performances and also the camera and everything else meant the world to us.
— Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023 -
Those who follow defense research give the Air Force’s decision a thumbs-up.
— Byjeffrey Mervis, science.org, 23 June 2023 -
Two thumbs-up: Typing with thumbs at the bottom of a screen is so much easier that Amazon redid its shopping app to move the search bar there.
— Fox News, 21 Nov. 2023
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