TOUCHED in a Sentence

Learn TOUCHED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

358 example sentences for TOUCHED, such as:

1. Everything she touched she dropped.
2. We were deeply touched by their present.
3. Each birthday is a milestone we touch along life's way.
4. Washington politicians are out of touch with the American people.
5. He joined our team and planed to scout that area we never touched.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of TOUCHED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
touched
 a.  emotionally affected; impressed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Leaning forward, he touched the farther end of the strip of brown stuff that she was hemming.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  "I suppose it was Ruth and Ned," she said in a low voice, as though he had suddenly touched on something grave.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  Cautiously he slid his hand palm-downward along the table till his finger-tips touched the end of the stuff.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  When the door of her room had closed on her he remembered that he had not even touched her hand.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
5  He had not even touched the tip of her fingers or looked her full in the eyes.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  She had scarcely touched plate in her hands and seven cavaliers about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  She's my sister now, and Ashley bent and touched her cheek with cold lips, his face drawn and taut.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  But those few moonlight nights alone with Charles had not touched her emotions or ripened her to maturity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  He turned as an orderly touched his arm and began firing directions and pointing to this and that wounded man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  Everything she touched she dropped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  But he drew rein abruptly, almost at Marietta Street, in the shadow of a warehouse not yet touched by the flames.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  He spoke the last words with a simple dignity that touched Scarlett, even in her amusement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
16  We were deeply touched by their present.
17  There the Pope touched the white marble shrine and paused for a minute in silent prayer, just like millions of pilgrims before him.
18  Still, he was sufficiently touched by his aunt's grief too long to rush out from under the bed and overwhelm her with joy--and the theatrical gorgeousness of the thing appealed strongly to his nature, too, but he resisted and lay still.
19  He joined our team and planed to scout that area we never touched.
20  King Midas is a perfect example of avarice, for he was so greedy that he wished everything he touched would turn to gold.
21  Watching the tearful reunion of the long-separated mother and child, the social worker was touched by the poignancy of the scene.
22  The razor has a very keen edge and shouldn't be touched by children.
23  I was so touched by the way the people in London took to that animal and cheered it on.
24  The place was pitch black, our feet creaked and crackled over the bare planking, and my outstretched hand touched a wall from which the paper was hanging in ribbons.
25  The spindly experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse, touched down at Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport shortly after 1 a.m. local time.
26  The results were a ringing endorsement of Merkel's stewardship over years of international crisis and recession that barely touched German soil.
27  This card allows you to access your money at the touch of a button.
28  Several film stars were invited to add a touch of glamour to the occasion.
29  Each birthday is a milestone we touch along life's way.
30  Washington politicians are out of touch with the American people.