How to Use middle finger in a Sentence

middle finger

noun
  • Bend the knuckles and middle finger joints and reach for your palm.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Yeah, no more straining to do all that with your middle fingers.
    — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2024
  • At halftime, the boos and middle fingers had the day, by more.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Where her three middle fingers should be, there are only tiny stumps that have no bones.
    — Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • One young, white worker stuck his middle finger in the face of agents idling in their car.
    — Cengiz Yar, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The tip of my middle finger to the base of my palm is just over 8 inches.
    — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2018
  • For scale, your three middle fingers held at arm's length span about five degrees of sky.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Smith, his hands in cuffs, raised the middle finger on both and looked straight at the camera.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Woodley chose to place the ink on the inside of his left middle finger.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Want to keep everything in place and give a middle finger to the breeze too?
    — Rachel Torgerson, Cosmopolitan, 15 Aug. 2017
  • But there is a small but telling point of tension in that hand, as middle finger curls to meet thumb.
    — Lee Lawrence, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Hug your right knee to your chest and wrap your right index and middle fingers around your right big toe.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Cross your middle finger over your pointer.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 23 June 2026
  • Ohtani has been pitching through a blister on the middle finger of his right hand.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
  • Wrap your index, thumb and middle finger around the stem of a wineglass.
    — Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 15 Dec. 2017
  • One Auburn fan leaned over the railing, waved his middle finger and yelled.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In the stand, Maradona flipped a pair of middle fingers at the seats below him.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 26 June 2018
  • Leonard's middle finger appeared to get just enough of the ball to keep it out of the basket.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Amid the honks of support, some motorists flashed a middle finger.
    — Maya Rao, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Some drivers honked their horns and waved in approval, though a few gave the group the middle finger.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2021
  • The 32-year-old singer followed up the long pause with a thumbs-up and a middle finger.
    — Caché McClay, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Dec. 2025
  • A lot of people think my big goal is to alienate people and to give them a big middle finger.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The metal barb pushed right through the middle of my ring finger and my middle finger.
    — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The flag that hangs now carries the same message but without the middle finger.
    — Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Oct. 2021
  • His middle finger glanced off the ball, sending it higher and five feet short of the target.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, Indianapolis Star, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Place the index and middle fingers on the inside of the wrist, just below the base of the thumb.
    — Julie Scott, Msn, Anp-Bc, Aocnp, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Grip the writing utensil between the first and middle fingers and use the thumb to hold it in place.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 31 July 2024
  • Jeimer Candelario left the game with a jammed middle finger on the right hand.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2018
  • It was flown as a middle finger to the establishment, backed by a kind of rebel-yell pride.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2020
  • Some passersby gave the crowd the middle finger, but honking was far more common.
    — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 18 Oct. 2025

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