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

I therefore caused such a place to be looked out for, and such a place was found on very easy terms, and I have been touching it up for him and making it habitable. 

From Bleak House by Dickens, Charles