He held the knife vertically, grabbing the handle like a ski pole and placing the tip between the prisoner's outstretched thumb and index finger.

A shaftment is the width of the fist and outstretched thumb.

His outstretched thumb dropped in concert with his jaw as first the Corvette and then the police bike roared past.

The typical depth was his fist plus the outstretched thumb (hitch hiker).

Their postings serve as the electronic age's equivalent of the outstretched thumb, and they hail largely from the nation's urban strongholds of left-wing politics.

"I'll reach this into you, and tear out-" Not waiting to hear the rest, she leaped and caught his outstretched thumb in both her hands.

The man spun again, thrusting the V of his outstretched thumb and fingers up into the patient's wrist, forcing the hand away.

Not with him in there-" He gestured with an outstretched thumb at the door just behind him.

No, he corrected himself, not even a baby- the tiny body was no longer than the distance between the tips of his outstretched thumb and little finger.

He made an improvised compass for measuring out of his outstretched thumb and second finger.