touch
verb (used with object)
to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it.
have been touching
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present perfect progressiveof touch.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Flight-loads of fans have been touching down at Singapore's Changi Airport all week, many coming from China and its territories.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2024
“But if we’ve learned anything it’s that we have been touching these lands forever — humanity has — and doing nothing is really doing something.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
The very premise of Truong’s novel makes a salient contemporary point: Hearn’s global search for love and acceptance may have been touching, but even the search was a privilege.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
That might have been touching, but for the fact that the audience at home had absolutely no idea what the guy sounds or acts like.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2016
“You have been touching the toys and damaging them,” she said with anger.
From Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly by Hall, Edith King
