Finger Shaped

The finger-shaped strip of land was expected to eventually be inundated with 10- to 20-feet of water, according to Army Corps of Engineers estimates. ❋ Unknown (2011)

My mum, who should take full credit for my devotion to the dish, uses finger-shaped boudoir biscuits while Mary Berry, in her Christmas Collection, opts for the larger trifle sponge. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At home, her mother slapped her, finger-shaped welts rising on her cheek, and said, "The devil is using you." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Angry, purple, finger-shaped bruises had already begun to form on her neck before the girls had even left Crenshaw. ❋ Kate Brian (2010)

Gossilen turned her spinnerets toward the wound, and the little finger-shaped things spun out the finest thread Hap had seen yet. ❋ P.W. CATANESE (2010)

His strong fingers tightened around her wrist, until dark, finger-shaped shadows appeared on her skin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So the hatchet struck and rang on the stone, and Measure gasped at the sight of it, sure it'd take his fingers clean off; but when the Red picked up the hatchet, there was Measure's hand just like before, not marked a bit, while the hatchet had finger-shaped depressions in the blade, like it was made of cool butter or wet cake-soap. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Appendicitis is an infection of the appendix, the finger-shaped structure at the end of the large intestine, in the right lower part of the abdomen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mama's love turned me inside out like her blue gardening gloves her smell and whorls at the end of each finger-shaped tube ❋ Maggie Jochild (2007)

Flat bread crackers - I don't know what was better, the dead simple recipe or the look of those finger-shaped shards. ❋ Haalo (2008)

Each finger-shaped fruit teems with spherical pulp vesicles that are the citrus equivalent of caviar. ❋ Adam Leith Gollner (2008)

Terms & Expressions: la bouderie (f) = sulkiness, (fit of the) sulks bouder quelqu'un = to refuse to have anything to do with someone avoir des succès de boudoir = to be successful with women un boudoir = a private sitting room; also a finger-shaped cookie or cake known in English as a "ladyfinger" ❋ Unknown (2006)

I wanted something that looked like the grabber, but also was rootlike and a little, well, more finger-shaped. ❋ Maryrobinette (2008)