How to Use thumbs-up in a Sentence

thumbs-up

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Exiting the courtroom on a break, Trump responded to a question from the Daily News about how Blanche was doing with a thumbs-up.
  — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 16 May 2024
• Julian Khater, whom Mellis identifies by name in the video, gives a thumbs-up and recites a prayer written on a piece of paper into the phone.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Even though there was no handshake after that match, Azarenka gave Svitolina a thumbs-up salute.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 13 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024