TOUCHED in a Sentence
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358 example sentences for TOUCHED, such as:
1. I touched him lightly on the arm.
2. She touched him gently on the arm.
3. I was really touched beyond words.
4. Everything she touched she dropped.
5. He bent and touched his mouth to hers.
2. She touched him gently on the arm.
3. I was really touched beyond words.
4. Everything she touched she dropped.
5. He bent and touched his mouth to hers.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TOUCHED
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touched
v. be in direct physical contact with; make contact
n. the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Leaning forward, he touched the farther end of the strip of brown stuff that she was hemming.
2 "I suppose it was Ruth and Ned," she said in a low voice, as though he had suddenly touched on something grave.
3 Cautiously he slid his hand palm-downward along the table till his finger-tips touched the end of the stuff.
4 When the door of her room had closed on her he remembered that he had not even touched her hand.
5 He had not even touched the tip of her fingers or looked her full in the eyes.
6 But his cheek touched hers, and it was cold and full of weeping, and he saw the road to the Flats under the night and heard the whistle of the train up the line.
7 She had scarcely touched plate in her hands and seven cavaliers about her.
8 She's my sister now, and Ashley bent and touched her cheek with cold lips, his face drawn and taut.
9 But those few moonlight nights alone with Charles had not touched her emotions or ripened her to maturity.
10 He touched up the mare with the whip and she trotted briskly across Five Points and across the railroad tracks that cut the town in two.
11 Cold little ripples of fear that started in the pit of her stomach were radiating outward until the fingers that touched her cheeks were cold, though the rest of her body streamed perspiration.
12 He turned as an orderly touched his arm and began firing directions and pointing to this and that wounded man.
13 Everything she touched she dropped.
14 But he drew rein abruptly, almost at Marietta Street, in the shadow of a warehouse not yet touched by the flames.
15 He spoke the last words with a simple dignity that touched Scarlett, even in her amusement.
Example Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
1 I touched him lightly on the arm.
2 She touched him gently on the arm.
3 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
4 She touched its tough irregular surface.
5 I haven't even touched your tooth yet.
6 I was really touched beyond words.
7 The central issue of the debate was hardly touched on in his speech.
8 The issue of birth control was touched on, but we need to examine it in more detail.
9 The blind touched the elephant's ear and said that it was just like a huge fan.
10 She touched up her lipstick and brushed her hair.
11 The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.
12 He swore that he had never touched the kid.
13 The incident on the frontier touched off a major war.
14 He bent and touched his mouth to hers.
15 By accident he touched the hot metal, and yanked his hand away with a cry of pain.