How to Use "thimble" with Example Sentences

1. Etymology can only ask why a small cuplike guard used in sewing is called a thimble , though it is put on the third finger .

2. In he hopped , and laid the great ruby on the table beside the woman 's thimble .

3. I think I 'll be the thimble .

4. You misplace or accidentally contaminate a tiny drop of liquid while pipetting into a tube that 's smaller than a thimble , and your experiment fails .

5. The seamstress replied that her thimble had fallen into the water and that she needed it to help her husband in making a living for their family .