TOUCHING in a Sentence

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358 example sentences for TOUCHING, such as:

1. I was really touched beyond words.
2. I haven't even touched your tooth yet.
3. He bent and touched his mouth to hers.
4. We were deeply touched by their present.
5. He swore that he had never touched the kid.

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 Meanings and Examples of TOUCHING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
touching
 a.  concerning; relating to; with respect to
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I'll do no such thing," she said, touching the horses lightly with the whip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  She shrank from touching him as she harnessed him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
7  Mrs. Hatch showed from the first an almost touching desire for Lily's approval.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  Suddenly Erik was coming, turning in, swinging open the screen door, touching her hand.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  I asked him what might be his immediate purpose, touching his future movements.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  I do so now, touching the Black Fish, so-called, because blackness is the rule among almost all whales.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
14  Conversation turning upon whales, the Commodore was pleased to be sceptical touching the amazing strength ascribed to them by the professional gentlemen present.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
15  Nevertheless he had taken private measures of his own touching all that matter.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
Example Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
16  I haven't even touched your tooth yet.
17  I was really touched beyond words.
18  The central issue of the debate was hardly touched on in his speech.
19  The issue of birth control was touched on, but we need to examine it in more detail.
20  The blind touched the elephant's ear and said that it was just like a huge fan.
21  She touched up her lipstick and brushed her hair.
22  The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.
23  He swore that he had never touched the kid.
24  The incident on the frontier touched off a major war.
25  He bent and touched his mouth to hers.
26  By accident he touched the hot metal, and yanked his hand away with a cry of pain.
27  We were deeply touched by their present.
28  There the Pope touched the white marble shrine and paused for a minute in silent prayer, just like millions of pilgrims before him.
29  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.
30  He joined our team and planed to scout that area we never touched.