TOUCHING in a Sentence
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358 example sentences for TOUCHING, such as:
1. I touched him lightly on the arm.
2. She touched him gently on the arm.
3. He felt a hand touching his shoulder.
4. She touched its tough irregular surface.
5. She shrank from touching him as she harnessed him.
2. She touched him gently on the arm.
3. He felt a hand touching his shoulder.
4. She touched its tough irregular surface.
5. She shrank from touching him as she harnessed him.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TOUCHING
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touching
a. arousing affect
n. the event of something coming in contact with the body
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 "I'll do no such thing," she said, touching the horses lightly with the whip.
2 But for all her plainness of feature and smallness of stature, there was a sedate dignity about her movements that was oddly touching and far older than her seventeen years.
3 War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.
4 She shrank from touching him as she harnessed him.
5 Always the family clustered about him, always Melanie was by his side, touching his sleeve now and again to reassure herself he was really there.
6 She could not wholly understand or analyze what he was feeling, but it seemed almost as if she too had been brushed by whispering skirts, touching her softly in a last caress.
7 Mrs. Hatch showed from the first an almost touching desire for Lily's approval.
8 That night she ate prodigiously of steak and fried potatoes; she produced electric sparks by touching his ear with her finger-tip; she slept twelve hours; and awoke to think how glorious was this brave land.
9 Suddenly Erik was coming, turning in, swinging open the screen door, touching her hand.
10 I asked him what might be his immediate purpose, touching his future movements.
11 Now, this plan of Queequeg's, or rather Yojo's, touching the selection of our craft; I did not like that plan at all.
12 The original matter touching the sperm whale to be found in their volumes is necessarily small; but so far as it goes, it is of excellent quality, though mostly confined to scientific description.
13 I do so now, touching the Black Fish, so-called, because blackness is the rule among almost all whales.
14 Conversation turning upon whales, the Commodore was pleased to be sceptical touching the amazing strength ascribed to them by the professional gentlemen present.
15 Nevertheless he had taken private measures of his own touching all that matter.
Example Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
1 Dr. Montessori giving a lesson in touching geometrical insets.
2 Hold your hoop horizontally, with its opening in front of you, so that it is touching your back.
3 I was about to propound a question, touching the manner in which that operation of changing my heart was to be performed, when Mrs. Reed interposed, telling me to sit down.
4 Well, I says to myself at last, I'm a-going to chance it; I'll up and tell the truth this time, though it does seem most like setting down on a kag of powder and touching it off just to see where you'll go to.
5 It consisted in a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst of the music -- the reader probably remembers how to do it, if he has ever been a boy.
6 This hand pose is a sign of joy and satisfaction; it is done by extending the hands above the head with the fingertips of the hands touching.
7 The thought of him touching her filled her with deep loathing.
8 Yesterday once more,memory,raining,snowing smiling are touching my heart.
9 She is most powerful and touching when she writes about the student movement in the old days.
10 Be particularly fastidious about washing your hands before touching food.
11 He felt a hand touching his shoulder.
12 I touched him lightly on the arm.
13 She touched him gently on the arm.
14 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
15 She touched its tough irregular surface.