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  • For a purely primitive firestarter take some paper thin birch bark and wrap it around a thumb-size wad of pine sap.

    Firestarter 2009

  • Later this year, expect the Roku Streaming Stick, a thumb-size device that plugs into the back of your TV for a more minimal look. $50, roku.com 3. PLUG INTO THE WORLD WIDE WEB

    Cutting the Cord on Cable Kevin Sintumuang 2012

  • Microsoft Windows 8 will run on thumb-size motherboard .

    CES 2011: A Consumer Reports coverage wrap-up 2011

  • Entomologist Piotr Naskrecki says that the laptop and thumb-size memory drive saved his career from hopeless disorganization, though he confesses, candidly, that they've cost him the "physical evidence of one's scientific prestige—the extensive shelves of important looking volumes and journals."

    Spiral-Bound and Spellbound Jennie Erin Smith 2011

  • For a purely primitive firestarter take some paper thin birch bark and wrap it around a thumb-size wad of pine sap.

    Firestarter 2009

  • Coins are traded for quick-burning candles, thumb-size bags of salt, palm-size bags of laundry soap, a single egg, three tablespoons of vegetable oil, cigarettes by the stick, rice by the cupful, or clean drinking water doled out in stretchy plastic bags.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • Although age had dug thumb-size hollows above each eye, he still wore the inquisitive expression of a much younger horse, and that made him appear to be smiling.

    Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010

  • Coins are traded for quick-burning candles, thumb-size bags of salt, palm-size bags of laundry soap, a single egg, three tablespoons of vegetable oil, cigarettes by the stick, rice by the cupful, or clean drinking water doled out in stretchy plastic bags.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • The thumb-size images depict a player safely sliding into home base and Andrew "Rube" Foster, who founded the Negro National League in 1920.

    U.S. Postal Service honors its own and others with Negro leagues baseball stamps 2010

  • Although age had dug thumb-size hollows above each eye, he still wore the inquisitive expression of a much younger horse, and that made him appear to be smiling.

    Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010

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