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Example sentences for "fingerprints"

Lexicographically close words:
fingering; fingerless; fingernail; fingernails; fingerprint; fingers; fingertip; fingertips; fings; fini
  1. That glass with the fingerprints on it, you'll find nicely wrapped up on the hall table.

  2. The result is that the cops got Sadie's fingerprints and a description of you, of her and of Tony.

  3. Those fingerprints will have to be examined by the police.

  4. I'm going to see if I can get any fingerprints in that booth.

  5. The fingerprints taken by the expert in the library might and might not jibe with those taken in the slot-booth.

  6. I took also a few articles which I selected from Marlowe's bedroom, as bearing the most distinct of the innumerable fingerprints which are always to be found upon toilet articles in daily use.

  7. I already had in my possession, made upon leaves cut from my pocket diary, some excellent fingerprints of Marlowe's which he had made in my presence without knowing it.

  8. I think if you will get a copy of that you will find they asked me lots of questions about fingerprints and evidence.

  9. So, to the best of your recollection, the coloring has been changed a little bit because of attempts to draw fingerprints from it?

  10. And apparently the scope had even been taken off of the rifle, in searching for fingerprints on the rifle.

  11. I think you said that the reason you didn't touch it was because of the danger of fingerprints on there, is that right?

  12. Her fingerprints were sent to Washington.

  13. Even your fingerprints are sent to Washington.

  14. My fingerprints were taken last night," I said.

  15. The Special Agent looked as surprised as though he had found Hoover's fingerprints on the murder-gun, but he nodded gamely.

  16. If their fingerprints had been on the handle--but useless to bother any further about that; the fingerprints on the handle were NOT theirs--that he knew perfectly.

  17. He turned to the jury: "Compare the fingerprints of the accused with the fingerprints left by the assassin--and report.

  18. He got out all the fingerprints of girls and women in his collection of records and pored gloomily over them an hour or more, trying to convince himself that that troublesome girl's marks were there somewhere and had been overlooked.

  19. Valet de Chambre, Negro and slave--falsely called Thomas a Becket Driscoll--make upon the window the fingerprints that will hang you!

  20. I have the fingerprints of the court, the sheriff, and every member of the jury.

  21. Still, the person who made the fingerprints must be sought.

  22. Wilson noticed that there were fingerprints on the knife's handle.

  23. How am I going to know whose fingerprints they are till we get hold of Sprague?

  24. Price's autopsy bears you out as to the course of the bullet, and that Carraway finds Sprague's fingerprints on that contrivance for raising the screen.

  25. And we have Carraway's report that it was Sprague's fingerprints on those nickleplated things you have to press together to make the screen roll up or down.

  26. The window was already open, but the screen had to be raised, too, and Sprague's fingerprints had to be on the nickel catches by which the screen curtain is raised or lowered.

  27. Pushing the door wide open with his foot--for he never forgot the possibility of incriminating fingerprints which might easily be obliterated, he discovered a light switch near the door frame.

  28. I refer, of course, to the complete absence of fingerprints on the door and on the shelf itself!

  29. I felt sure these rooms would yield a very definite clue, even though Sprague, when he sneaked back tonight to get his tell-tale bag, apparently made every effort to wipe his fingerprints off the furniture and bathroom fixtures.

  30. Did she hope to leave fingerprints now which would account for fingerprints she had already left upon it?

  31. God grant he hadn't destroyed any tell-tale fingerprints in his criminal haste to learn any secret that Nita Selim had recorded here!

  32. Five minutes later Dundee sat at that desk, photographs of Dexter Sprague's dead body, just as it had been discovered on the floor of the trophy room in the Miles home, and a labelled set of fingerprints spread out before him.

  33. But it was the absence of fingerprints on the pivoting panel and shelf which kept me on the right track.

  34. He can identify pictures of Anton Gerrit as those of the man he operated on fourteen years ago, and his testimony and Ernestine Coyón's fingerprints will identify Ravick as that man.

  35. Only you can't grow fingerprints by carniculture, the way you can human tissue for grafting.

  36. Could you determine, for example, solely from fingerprints whether the subject was Negro or Caucasian?

  37. From infancy to senility the fingerprints of an individual change only in size, except as injuries alter the loops and whorls.

  38. Now," said the officer, "you shall have your fingerprints in a second.

  39. You forget that for twenty years the dead body of the child who made those fingerprints lay in the cabin of his father, and that all my life I have seen it lying there," said Tarzan bitterly.

  40. No; there were other fingerprints developed on this box.

  41. Approximately how many fingerprints do you have these days?

  42. Their features were the same, their measurements were the same, but then their fingerprints were completely different.

  43. There were quite a few fingerprints that didn't belong to Oswald.

  44. Is there any other evidence pertaining to fingerprints or palmprints that you have not discussed?

  45. I found two fingerprints and one palmprint.

  46. In the newspaper several months ago there was reference to a--I don't even recall whether it was fingerprints or palmprints or both but there was some reference in the newspaper I had seen, and that is all.

  47. Yes; in addition to this one which has been cut out and which had been covered by a piece of lifting tape, there were two fingerprints developed in addition to that one.

  48. No; because the gun was dusted for fingerprints and any fibers that were loosely adhering to it could have been dusted off.

  49. Is is likely or possible that those fingerprints could have been damaged or eroded in the passage from Texas to your hands?

  50. Apart from the fingerprints obtained in connection with the assassination.

  51. He would be responsible for seeing that the fingerprints are properly searched, properly classified.

  52. Were there any identifications of fingerprints as being Lee Harvey Oswald's in addition to the ones which you have given us?

  53. Can I ask one question there, did you take any precautions as to fingerprints before you ejected this?

  54. On Box A, in addition to these two prints there were developed eight fingerprints and three palmprints.

  55. The fingerprints appearing on this card are exactly the same as those that appear on the card which you have previously referred to as Commission Exhibit 627.

  56. That is what prompted me to get the fingerprints of Peters, so that I might send them to Scotland Yard to see if anything was known of him there.

  57. The fingerprints of mummies can be deciphered even after thousands of years.

  58. There are fingerprints of people taken fifty years ago that are exactly the same as their finger-prints of to-day.

  59. Those oil cans back there may have some fingerprints on them that will prove valuable clues.

  60. It will save hours over the best train connections he could make, and he may be able to read a surprising story if there are any fingerprints on these empty oil cans.

  61. Every tin was examined and the fingerprints recorded and filed for comparison with the records at the headquarters of the state police.

  62. A car was waiting at the field to whisk the fingerprint expert away, but before Collins left he promised to telephone the News office whatever secrets the fingerprints might unfold.

  63. We may find a valuable story in the fingerprints if the chaps who started the fire got careless.

  64. The fingerprints and footsteps and the maid's story of seeing her that night all seem to prove she was there at the fatal hour.

  65. I am a tidy housekeeper, and I am continually at war with fingerprints on white paint.

  66. She had already admitted and explained the fingerprints to March, who had expressed himself satisfied.

  67. Footprints on the window sill, fingerprints on the window frame and a streak of red paint.

  68. But I've hunted for fingerprints on the hammers and mallets around the premises, and there are no prints on them except the ones legitimately there.

  69. For they say they are her fingerprints and her footprints and she admits that she had that Totem thing in her mind.

  70. And, according to Mr. March, you raised a window in your uncle's sitting room, thereby leaving your fingerprints on the white enamel paint?

  71. But another strange thing--Griscom says those fingerprints were not on the white paint Wednesday evening when he put the suite in order for the night.

  72. Yet you say those were her fingerprints on the window frame?

  73. Keeley made her say she left her fingerprints when she tried to raise that window, and then he flung at her that it was raining all Tuesday afternoon.

  74. I am willing to take blame for its design and construction, remaining thankful to all those whose fingerprints are, probably, still evident on some of the bricks I used.

  75. As we search in our days for the fingerprints of terrorists, we experience the function of expression in almost the reverse of previous pragmatic contexts.

  76. There are only three types of people who know about fingerprints today, historians and policemen being two.

  77. No one else is likely to know that there was a time in which fingerprints were a valid means of identification.

  78. The remark you made about fingerprints suggests you may have been a historian, specializing in the Twentieth Century.

  79. Fingerprints were a fair means of identification in the Twentieth Century, but this is the Twenty-second Century.

  80. I've made out at least two fingerprints on the luggage compartment," he said, quietly.

  81. They have a process of transferring fingerprints such as these; get it done.

  82. That he did go to the safe was apparent by the fingerprints upon it, and as they, too, smelt of aniseed, the whole thing began to look decidedly funny.

  83. Next, he left no fingerprints on the telephone or on the revolver, save those of Gleason himself.

  84. We've got word from the photographer, and there are no fingerprints on the revolver or on the telephone except Gleason's own.

  85. By the way, Zizi, I found Pollard's fingerprints on the Barry letter.

  86. It didn't go around leaving bloody fingerprints or lipsticked cigarette butts or packets of paper matches with Ciro's, Hollywood, written on them.

  87. It contained enlarged photographs of the fingerprints on the handle of the knife.

  88. I'll check the photos and the fingerprints here, and also with American F.

  89. He took the envelope bearing Androtten's pictures and fingerprints from his desk.


  90. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fingerprints" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.