Example Sentences

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In contrast, the ease of digital payments often results in mindless spending, as the tangibility of cash is replaced by abstract numbers on a screen.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

Eric Hoffer famously said that “Usually the strength of a mass movement is proportionate to the vividness and tangibility of its devil.”

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2024

“Tim likes the reality of things and the tangibility of things,” Scruton adds.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2023

Residents interact with the fruits of the SDOT’s labor every day, by car, foot, bus or bike — a level of tangibility not always obvious in, say, the Department of Neighborhoods.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2022

She might lose her visibility; or her tangibility; or, in short, the power of making impressions upon the radical sensorium; so that he should never be able to tell whether she was dead or alive.

From Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 by MacDonald, George