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How to use fingering in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Fingering means the act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument. Example: “That chord has two fingerings.”

Examples of fingering by meaning

nounA specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument.

  • That chord has two fingerings.

More sentences with fingering

  • He looked at his guys; nervous and fingering their safetied weapons.2014, The Twilight of Liberty, page 205. From the entry safetied
  • Now my friend was fingering my wife and licking her clit.2011 June 14, wtw, “{wtw} - "4someWithFriends" (1/1)”, in alt.sex.stories (Usenet), retrieved 22 Nov 2014. From the entry o
  • The Fondamento really is very basic, though the detailed fingerings are of interest.2006, Early Music Review - Issues 111-116, page 4. From the entry fondamento
  • A bit of sticky fingering, a shady deal or two, life wasn't easy.1981, Ursula Holden, Penny Links. From the entry sticky finger
  • I guess that's why I started sticky fingering things.2012, Mar'ce Merrell, Wicked Sweet: A Novel, Feiwel & Friends, →ISBN. From the entry sticky finger
  • I stood in front of the mirror, fingering my wenis.2010, Tilda Shalof, Camp Nurse: My Adventures at Summer Camp, page 94. From the entry wenis
  • If he had spied any, or surprised me fingering any of his girls, he would have shot me.1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve. From the entry tribade
  • Fingering so much lettuce strengthens his nerves.1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 26. From the entry lettuce
  • The fingering challenges that arise are similar to those above, involving unorthodox key usage, half- and sometimes quarter-holing, and unusual configurations of keywork.2017, Eric F. Clarke, editor, Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music. From the entry keywork
  • Ah! he said, fingering my jacket.2003, Brian Castro, Shanghai Dancing, page 377. From the entry bag of fruit
  • Syed Hassan, withdrawn, presented only his shamed back to the household, playing the radio, fingering the knobs like a rosary of penitence.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 511. From the entry shamed
  • And furtively Time looked him in the face and edged towards him fingering with his dripping fingers the hilt of his nimble sword.1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 4. From the entry furtively
  • He rose from his knees, and walked slowly across to the mantelpiece, where he stood abstractedly fingering the ornaments, and straightening them—a trick of his when he was agitated.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 40. From the entry abstractedly
  • Many school music teachers and directors are not primarily clarinetists and, knowing little of the subtle intricacies of this "bad boy" of instruments, can teach little more than the fingering.1949 November-December, Floyd E. Low, “Keep that pitch UP!”, in The Instrumentalist, volume 4, Association for the Advancement of…. From the entry bad boy

Meaning of fingering

  1. noun The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.
  2. noun A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument.
  3. noun The act of using the fingers to stimulate one's own, or another person's, vulva, vagina, or anus.

Full definition of fingering

Questions about fingering in a sentence

How do you use fingering in a sentence?
Fingering is used as a noun. For example: “That chord has two fingerings.”
What is a short sentence with fingering?
“That chord has two fingerings.”
What does fingering mean?
Fingering means the act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.

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