Example Sentences

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Chen solicits assistance from a hacker who owes him a favor, and from his own personal assistant, Jin, whose interest in her unmarried boss’s well-being is touchingly personal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Cox had also given touchingly humane voice to the idea that LGBTQ+ people deserve respect and in 2022 vetoed a bill that would have prohibited transgender youth from participating in school sports.

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2025

Kyogo, touchingly, stayed with him all the time.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2024

Wrapping up the New Ohio’s final Ice Factory festival on Aug. 12, it was thrillingly, even touchingly, weird.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2023

Where I was, in fact, was companionless, far away from where I had gotten off the trail, and impossibly adrift from a touchingly optimistic hiking schedule I had drawn up nearly a year before.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson