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Sentence Examples My mother was sitting in the backseat but that did not stop the driver from trying to touch me. I loved his blend of Native American realism with just a touch of surrealism. Tile work in the bathrooms, furniture, and artwork on the walls all flowed together and carried his creative touch. Her original statement caused an uproar from working mothers who argued Paltrow was out of touch and elitist. We should know by now that a rational argument never can touch an affair of the heart. The walls are lined with clouded glass and throw a touch of art deco into the design mix. Where does a Latin America-born boy with a Cuban father living in Miami learn to get in touch with Americana folk roots? By the time we got to the place on the hill, the sun had baked one side of the dog's coat so hot you could hardly touch him. Amazingly, considering the subject matter, the Jack Taylor novels have a touch of snob appeal. Van Dyck had remained in touch with the English court, and had helped King Charles's agents in their search for pictures. Lacking mateyness, he lacks also the true imperiousness which is sometimes an effective substitute for the common touch. Any extra fantasy outside the cardinal assumption immediately gives a touch of irresponsible silliness to the invention. He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity. Buddicom and Blair lost touch shortly after he went to Burma, and she became unsympathetic towards him. Jones' basslines have been described as melodic and his keyboard playing added a classical touch to the band's sound. Another manuscript of the same century has a crude but spirited picture which brings us into close touch with the existing game. Australia opened the scoring after they decided to run a penalty instead of kicking for touch. As they go around the mark they cannot touch it, and then they go on to the second leg. Thus, when the Act became law on 23 December 1920 it was already out of touch with realities in Ireland. There was an easy familiar touch about the way they were getting ready, as though they had done it often before. Show More Sentences That the things I see with mine eyes and touch with my hands do exist, really exist, I make not the least question. They had more than 45 years in the business, but it was clear they never lost their touch. Sikhs will commonly enter the gurdwara, touch the ground before the holy scripture with their foreheads. Former pupils are known as Old Paulines, and may keep in touch with each other through the Old Pauline Club. Even phrased as they are in Higher Managementese, these comments touch the heart of the matter. Pilgrims came to touch the royal shrine of the murdered Henry VI, the fragment of the True Cross and other important relics. We walked in procession with this tree and not even a single leaf had to touch the ground. We had to raise it without making it touch the ground, holding it in our arms like a child. Mexican styles add oregano and the guajillo red pepper to the Spanish chorizo to give it an even hotter spicy touch. With a delicate touch, he reset his golden peruke on his sweat-slick skull. As they ripen they soften until reaching the ripe state where they are red or orange in color and slightly soft to the touch. For a decorative touch toss a red-and-white-checked napkin into your child's lunch box to create a picniclike atmosphere. A chariot covered with a curtain is dedicated to the goddess, and only the high priest may touch it. They've mastered one of the finer points of popcraft, the ability to create a texture you want to touch. Vespucci's rawer tales of cannibalism and free sexuality added a touch of titillation to the wonder. The pustules were sharply raised, typically round, tense, and firm to the touch. Just one touch lets you go from black to a second color. Presto. Chango. Or back to black. Presto. Chango. Color copies have never been easier. Sheep can also consume plants, such as noxious weeds, that most other animals will not touch, and produce more young at a faster rate. It is a spreading vine, rooting readily where trailing stems touch the ground. He embraced the cold statue and by his touch, it grew into youth, health and beauty. Show More Sentences The flavors of radicchio and radish are delicious with only a touch of balsamic vinegar for a dressing. Paul came back and threaded daisies in her jet black hair, big spangles of white and yellow, and just a pink touch of ragged robbin. The touch paper for the final crisis was the unlikely subject of the sale of captured German assets in Nigeria. The fancy and the swift are the only rollers in the carding process that actually touch. Today, the tradition is that whoever passes the monkey has to touch its head with his left hand for the fulfillment of a wish. The gourmet 'treat' glistened repellently. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot chopstick. This response to touch is known as thigmonasty, and is quite rapid in some species. Aquatic invertebrates such as Daphnia touch these hairs and deform the door by lever action, releasing the vacuum. After, he made an harlot, a ribald, come to him alone for to touch his members and his body, to move to lechery. They agree to touch it at the same time, and doing so, discover that it is a Portkey that transports them to a graveyard. The outlines must be smooth, imperceptible to the touch, and even, without eminence or cavities. The federal opposition says people smugglers now see Australia as a soft touch on border security. But Fred Heimach, who batted for Quinn in the Brooklyn half and fanned, proved a soft touch for the Cardinals in the ninth. I finally abandoned any lingering illusions I had had that Ministry work was a soft touch. She shivered in the July sunshine, putting out her hand to touch the sunwarmed stones of the house to steady herself. Although touch, or tactition, is considered one of the five traditional human senses, touch is just one component of the somatosensory system. But Ronald Reagan, by everybody's definition, was the Teflon president, and it wasn't that the media tried to touch him and failed. Then he opened his closet and took out a black topcoat. It was heavily lined with silk, soft to the touch. He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch. Rovers' hopes of pulling off one of the great European shocks of all time lasted just 10 minutes before Spurs finally found their scoring touch. Show More Sentences Never give the least touch with your pencil till you have well examined your design. Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpenny touch. His condition was touch and go for a time after the accident, but they think he will recover. Be cautious talking about religion or politics, lest you touch off an argument. O lovely green dragon of the new day, the undawned day, come, come in touch, and release us from the horrid grip of the evil-smelling old Logos! His fancy, habitually moving about in worlds not realized, unrealizes everything at a touch. The kids would copy the men to make their own cricket stumps, but no-one was allowed to touch Grandfather's special wood for making waddies. So long as I get to claim my virtual waifu and our 30 virtual children as tax deductions, I don't really care if I can't touch her. A man-to-man touch then on his buttoned epaulet. A middle-aged smile full of Weltschmerz. Archaic walkie-talkies are so unreliable that officers have to buy phone credit themselves so they can stay in touch with headquarters. No one can touch you where your bathing suit covers.Resist it. The InDent Watchcase adds a distinctive touch of functionality and eye-catching designs to protective iPhone cases. Water Mint Sake has a combination of Water Mint and Orange coupled with a touch of Vanilla. Some web sites provide ways for campers to keep in touch after camp through e-mail lists, bulletin boards, and chat rooms. Adana Forsyth, 10, whose skin blistered at the slightest touch, was in agony almost every day of her short life. The forces of the law waded in mob-handed when, it seems, they ought to have applied a lighter, more consensual touch. Despite their size, the three EEZs do not overlap or touch one another, nor do they reach the EEZs of any other country or territory. Ransome concludes that Wilde succeeds precisely because the literary criticism is unveiled with such a deft touch. To guide this treatment, the editors have for long periods been in close touch with 10 Downing Street. In the essay, Berkeley examines visual distance, magnitude, position and problems of sight and touch. Show More Sentences In other primates the thumb is short and unable to touch the little finger. Each coin was identified within its tier by its size and each tier had to be capable of being identified by sight and touch. The Puritans of New England kept in close touch with nonconformists in England, as did the Quakers and the Methodists. Though these bands had a regional touch to their output, the overall sound was a homogenized mixture of Polish styles. Occasionally, players may accidentally touch a stone with their broom or a body part. Myths put one in touch with sacred realities, the fundamental sources of being, power, and truth. The genre of material culture includes all artifacts that you can touch, hold, live in or eat. Rush's last touch of the ball in a Liverpool shirt was when it bounced off his shoulder to set Eric Cantona up for his winning goal. Nobody ever got in touch with me personally from England, only through my agent. Reardon also became popular because he added a touch of humour and entertainment to his game. Meanwhile, George had put the band in touch with their first manager, Richard Lowe from MRM management. Smell, touch and lateral line sensitivities seem to be the main sensory devices for locating these. In most urchins, touch elicits a prompt reaction from the spines, which converge toward the touch point. Sailors did, however, consider it unlucky to touch a storm petrel, especially one that has landed on the ship. Killer whales have good eyesight above and below the water, excellent hearing, and a good sense of touch. Heat produced by the deceleration of these alpha particles makes it warm to the touch. I had been out of touch with my old friend for a long time when she called. His Boer War experience, annotated in the ribbons which he wore, had given him a touch of overlordliness, which now tuned his irritable remarks. By the time they had reorganised they were well behind schedule and out of touch with the creeping artillery barrage. In the discount bin by the door sat a pile of pan and scans, mostly comedies, that no one would touch. Show More Sentences Lizards make use of their senses of sight, touch, olfaction and hearing like other vertebrates. Taste and smell, in addition to sight, sound, and touch, may also be forms of communication. Each landing aircraft must touch down, slow, and exit the runway before the next crosses the approach end of the runway. The distance in time to the event it describes may mean that it was embellished to add a dramatic touch. Most molluscs have eyes, and all have sensors to detect chemicals, vibrations, and touch. The nature of the muscle is so stiff, it is almost as hard as bone to touch, as if it were the continuum of the skull. There was a missignal on the goal line and Newhall having no one to pass the ball to stuck it under his arm and made a successful quarter back run for a touch down. He separated from his wife, with whom, however, he remained in touch. A touch more depth in dimension with glass substituted for metal weight around the stainless steel watchcase and Moments ensures a very poised silhouette. Our only object in limiting the period of the duration of Parliament is that the House of Commons shall not get out of touch with the opinion of the electorate. You respond to a home where an 85-year-old male apparently died in his sleep during the night. The body is cool to the touch, mottled, and rigored. My parents didn't realize that we were going to stay in this country for so long, they felt responsible for keeping me in touch with Japanese values. In the operas, and also in concert works, another characteristic Sullivan touch is his fondness for pizzicato passages for all the string sections. I could sense it was touch and go whether I could get the lay. We wore hand-me-downs, hand-me-down again and spruced it up to look good. Didn't look secondhanded or nothing when we finished adding the touch to it. Employers, still influenced by a touch of 1930s Woosterism, liked the idea of recruiting a young graduate who had had a fling or two, even if it was with socialism. It is not as round as twisted rope and coarser to the touch. I know him well, we artists have the common touch, n'est-ce pas? Another way in which material can hold meaning and value is by carrying communication between people, just like other communication forms, such as speech, touch and gesture. While there was always a touch of the caricature about the Sandhurst cadet as the nice-but-dim public schoolboy, there was also a significant measure of truth. Show More Sentences We didn't touch their area before but we ran through Brixton and you couldn't see a nig-nog on the street. Any nig-nog walked on the street was dead. I'm in charge of a whole city block, and I always wear gloves when I touch the yay, cuz traces of cocaine show up on my u. a., when I touch it with my bare hands. Happy was he who might touch her hand or the hem of her garment! Dolphins also use nonverbal communication by means of touch and posturing. Serious actors of the world wouldn't touch the part with a ten-foot pole. You shall not, I repeat, not, touch them with your finely sharpened number-two pencils or any other marking instrument until you are explicitly told to do so. How was it for you, having me so close but without our longed-for touch? You can't make a move till you have about a year in a precinct, but tell you what, stay in touch. Lots a people still owe me a solid or two on the Job. Their canoe will fly through the air, on condition that they not mention God's name or touch the cross of any church steeple as they fly by in the canoe. There stood old Mandy McGovern, her long brown rifle half raised, her finger lying sophisticatedly along the trigger guard, that she might not touch the hair trigger. You need to take steps to get in touch with your spirit animal. Often roti is used to scoop curry without allowing it to touch the hand. All the sweet or savory dishes have a touch of famous Malabar spices. That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located. They had met while on tour two years prior and had kept in touch. Use a small brush to touch up the paint anywhere it is uneven. The deluxe superautomatic coffee makers can grind the beans, select the quantity of milk and discard the spent coffee grounds, all at the touch of a button. However, they have several types of sensitive nerve endings in their epidermis, and are able to sense chemicals in the water, touch, and even the presence or absence of light. Fulham switched off as Giggs took a quick corner to Valencia. He played it back to Giggs, whose cross was headed in by Nani with the lurking Rooney unable to add a touch. With an almost imperceptible touch, the narrator connects up this oneirism of names with the premonitory signs of the vocation that Remebrance is said to recount. Show More Sentences If the ball is held in two hands and either dropped or a shot at goal is missed, the same player cannot be the first to touch it unless it first rebounds off the goal. Edmund Kean at Drury Lane gave a psychological portrayal of the central character, with a common touch, but was ultimately unsuccessful in the role. The design of the boss characters is interesting, and the multiplayer mode is a nice touch, but the graphics are far too drab for a rail-based shooter. Evaporate 25 cc. of orthophosphoric acid solution to dryness, setting the burner beneath the dish and adjusting the flame so that the tip does not quite touch the dish. As a final touch, each wagoner tied a fine new cracker to his whip to outcrack his comrades as they dashed around the Plaza in a hilarious, triumphal entry. But a cultural touch point lies between Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian region of the Papua and West Papua, which shares the island of New Guinea with Papua New Guinea. With a bland touch and tortoiselike patience, he recorded arrangements of one or more bodies in drowsy repose surrounded by rugs, blankets and furniture. With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk. The bag seethed in her hand, not unpleasantly, as computational monofilaments shifted and flowed under her touch until they cradled the palps of her fingers. Suddenly, friends found me again that I had lost touch with years ago. Upon touch, it forces both sides closed, thereby trapping, but not killing, the animal, which can then be released or killed at the trapper's discretion. I creep, I shrithe on my devil's claws, and sting whatever I touch. Examples from Classical Literature The touch showed Jack to be not without some of the astuteness of his mother. But in that hour which seemed pure essence, with no attenuating sound or touch, he kept on up the hill toward Jenny's house. He was breathing deeply and audibly, and the girl's touch did not arouse him. Rose madder mixed with violet lake, and a touch of aureolin and Italian pink might do it! I durstn't touch it for fear of leaving the marks of my four fingers and thumb in amaranthine! The autosite can feel when the parasite is touched, and in some cases the autosite can localise the touch. She has no knowlidg of the cake, whitch was so dryed up, a begar woold not touch it. Tense, as if she were waiting for the warning not to touch, Martha finally caressed the hair of a baby doll. His maternal grandfather was an Adventist, with the touch of mysticism that word implies. And there is always intruding into the commonplace of the twentieth century some touch of ancientry, some hint of romance. The home name seemed to add a touch of endearment, and he used it advisedly. When they are feeding on beech mast, they often will not touch grain of any kind, and the mast must be used for bait. In the sound of her voice, in the light of her eyes, in the touch of her hands, so angelically comforting and true! Near by springs up the barrel cactus, a forbidding column no one dares touch. The word 'comrade' is getting us into closer touch all along the battle line. She spoke with a touch of haste, as if battling against some hindrance within. If you follow after good, every good act is a beautifying touch to your own soul. What possessed the woman to antagonize everyone with whom she came in touch? At any rate, alarcon and Coronado fully expected to be in touch much of the time. The minute you touch on religion, as commonly understood, you reach the sectarian. Show More Sentences It is not my intention to do more than touch upon the religious wars of the Cvennes. These men were in touch with Charles Sumner and other antislavery members of Congress. I was in dread for fear his trembling finger might accidently touch the trigger. A touch of solder will prevent trouble from oxidation, after the adhesive tape has been wrapped on. It had been touch and go for his life, but artificial respiration had succeeded. When the ends are brought together by rotation of these arytenoid cartilages, the medial surfaces touch. In consequence of the expenditure of so much coal, the Bellona had to touch at the Cape. The columns stand less than their diameter apart, and the abaci are so broad that they nearly touch. She was listed to sail for aspinwall at nine o'clock the next morning, and to touch at ports along the Central American coast. It will be six months before he and the other students actually touch a watch. Bymby I say alright, you come live my house don't you touch me, hear? The brandy I did not touch, for I have been an abstainer from my birth. The brand had been changed by an adroit touch or two of a running-iron. To which that would touch, which the Alcoran carries in Azoare. Good old alec, he didn't believe in anything he couldn't touch. How altered and defaced by the putrifying touch of mortality! The girls told us not to get carried away with everything because it is easy to end up abubble and lose touch. Could eyes be made so dull as not to light to your poetic touch, Andie? Iturbe is in constant touch with the fascist groups in Mexico City. The lobes of the thyroid glands are plainly palpable to the touch. Show More Sentences Stunned, Margaret did not move from the best parlour, over which the touch of art nouveau had fallen. She became attached to inanimate objects, and because it was her own, could not bare to have anyone touch the furniture of her room. Here it is not difficult to recognise an autobiographic touch. De Waal kicked a penalty to touch and although Leinster initially held out, a drive from close range saw Padro crash over in the left corner. But such an occasion as this is no time to touch a bad boy's heart. Bring her when she wakes, and let me touch her hands, her face, her hair, and tell her good-bye. It is written in the bardic spirit with here and there an Ossianic touch. But remember to touch your beaver where the hemlock boughs are low. He liked the barbaric touch in the many rings which bedecked her fingers. He has the reputation of being a great all-around player with a terrific shooting touch, athleticism and an advanced feel for setting up teammates. March would not leave Beth's side, but rested in the big chair, waking often to look at, touch, and brood over her child, like a miser over some recovered treasure. But she was such a sheaf of susceptibilities that her pulse was accelerated by the touch, her blood driven to her finder-ends, and the cool arms flushed hot. Each animal receives the special type of coat it needs with a little extra imaginative touch, like the little red heart behind the polar bear's ear. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of touch? Words that rhyme with touch What is the past tense of touch? What is the plural of touch? What is the adverb for touch? What is the adjective for touch? What is the noun for touch? Translations for touch Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words toucans toucan to turn down totty totting tottie Touch touchable touch and go touch-and-go touchback touchbacks 5-letter Words Starting With t to tou touc