thumb up

Example Sentences

• "Bob Arum, the promoter, said that Dakin had been signaling the English corner after each round with a thumb up, to say Minter had won the round on his scorecard."
• "Exploiting a member's indecision are lobbyists who station themselves outside the House and Senate chambers and signal members with a thumb up or a thumb down."
• "The fact is that the reader is now just interested in a thumb up or thumb down from the critic. And that's no way to criticize theater."
• "His was the most irrational response to a local cameraman since 1989, when Mark Jackson was wheeled out of a hospital following knee surgery. A Brooklyn kid out of St. John’s and at that time a Knick, Jackson was a favorite son of New York. Surely, he’d smile and give a thumb up."
• "They tell the story, the meta-story, of what happened when they opened the book and began to read the story. It’s not as sexy as a thumb up or a thumb down, but then again we’re suffering from a surfeit of thumbs."
• "The account shared pictures of the 44-year-old model wearing a $4,007 playsuit and asked whether it deserved a thumb up or a thumb down."