Example Sentences

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I’m a toucher, so not being touched was an intense alienating experience for me.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2020

Every toucher is “tarred with the same brush.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2019

In one of his best essays, A Plague of Tics, Sedaris recounts his obsessive-compulsive youth as a ritual footstep counter and doorknob toucher.

From Time Magazine Archive

If tight-faced, quixotic little Carry Nation was not insane, according to the McGrath play which claims to be "substantially true," she was close as a toucher to it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Plus les questions auxquelles nous aurons a toucher agitent et passionnent de nos jours les esprits, plus il est du devoir de l'historien de s'effacer devant les faits qu'il veut faire connaitre.—REUSS,

From Lectures on Modern history by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron