Example Sentences

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The agony is laid on deftly, sometimes almost impalpably.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the lurking and inevitable shadow of that life had impalpably and suddenly fallen upon him.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville

Shaving of metal peel off, as other edges turn, so impalpably fine that five thousand must be laid side by side to make an inch.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various

What rich minerals float impalpably in your tawny waters?

From The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman by Hough, Emerson

They were a long line of shadow shapes whose footfall made no sound, and whose pigmy bodies melted into the tangle as impalpably as the dissipating mists.

From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville