11.   Early on, tense, he cut a thumb on the blade in his Cuisinart.

12.   He is missing four fingers and has only a thumb on his right hand.

13.   He severed a tendon in his thumb on a glass last week in Kitzbuhel, Austria, underwent surgery and is out for at least six weeks.

14.   In any case, a thumbs up on the particulate-fighting plan from the EPA may only delay the day of reckoning.

15.   It was typed by someone who used poor punctuation and a heavy thumb on the space bar, leaving long gaps between words.

16.   Just a bit in contrast to the good old American sports tradition of limiting exercise to the thumb on clicker from the couch.

17.   Last season the league fined the Cowboys for concealing the fact that Aikman had injured his thumb on the Friday before a regular-season game against San Francisco.

18.   Lock up the line with your thumb on the upswing, let go and reel down, repeat, Barnett would utter.

19.   Policy disputes must be subjected to intellectual analysis, performed without a thumb on the scale.

20.   Push the disappointed too hard and you may find his thumbs on your windpipe.