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touching English

Meaning touching meaning

What does touching mean?
Definitions in simple English

touching

If something is touching it makes you feel sad or have pity. What a touching story!

touching

concerning, regarding There has been a number of difficulties touching on almost every aspect of the business.

touching

(= affecting, poignant) arousing affect the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene poignant grief cannot endure forever his gratitude was simple and touching (= touch) the event of something coming in contact with the body he longed for the touch of her hand the cooling touch of the night air (= touch) the act of putting two things together with no space between them at his touch the room filled with lights

Synonyms touching synonyms

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Topics touching topics

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Examples touching examples

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Simple sentences

I don't like her touching you.
Blind people read by touching, using a system of raised dots called Braille.
Sentences bring context to the words. Sentences have personalities. They can be funny, smart, silly, insightful, touching, hurtful.
Why are you touching my girlfriend?
Why are you touching my boyfriend?
How touching!
Quit touching me.
As soon as the three doctors had left the room, the Fairy went to Pinocchio's bed and, touching him on the forehead, noticed that he was burning with fever.
A definite advantage of automatic doors is that people can't spread their contagious diseases by touching door handles.
This song is very touching.
I'm not touching you.
I felt as if a cold hand was touching me.
Let go of my arm! I can't stand people touching me.
Stop touching me.
Why are you touching your ear?
I don't want you touching my stuff.
That's very touching.
He moved his leg so that it was touching mine.
My apartment needs touching up.
You can be charged with criminal assault without actually touching the victim.
What a touching story!

Movie subtitles

You're just touching gum.
That's so touching.
In writings that have survived to this day, these unhappy women wrote down with touching simplicity how the Devil penetrated the convent.
To a man with a heart as soft as mine,...there is nothing sweeter than a touching scene.
What could be more touching than that?
He would have slapped your hands so hard that they'd never dream again of touching anything that didn't belong to them.
We give them liquor, make them sit for hours alone without touching it, make them meet their craving, beat it back.
With a throb in his voice. - Thank you, Erica, thank you. - It'll be touching.
You'll not be touching Alexei!
Your loyalty is touching.
How touching.
Such solicitude is very touching.
He seems indifferent, or rather swaying more upon our part, for I have made an offer to his majesty, as touching France, to give a greater sum than ever at one time the clergy yet did to his predecessors part withal.
As touching the direction of the military disciplines, that is the point.
Stop touching my things!
How's that for a touching domestic scene?
It was wrong of him to steal it. but the motive was very touching.
When I put my hands on the earth. it's you I'm touching.
When I put my hands on the earth, it's you I'm touching.
You know, to a man with a heart as soft as mine. there's nothing sweeter than a touching scene.
I suppose I'm interrupting what is undoubtedly a most touching farewell.
Which explains our touching family interest here.
He said the most touching thing in his will. I remember every word of it.
That's very touching, dear, but I wish you wouldn't drive so fast.
Isn't it very touching?
How nice it will be if you have the ability, to tell who's your lifetime soul mate just by touching here like this?
It felt like hands touching me!
Miss Powers, we understand that one of the newspapers has offered you a sum of money for a story by you touching on this unfortunate affair.
Rather touching.
So touching that I almost want to cry.
You touching something?
Your belated reverence is very touching.
It's touching that such a treasure should belong to so poor a church in so modest a village.
I'm touching it. it's still here!
Why are you touching this?

News and current affairs

Early in his career, his work was often criticized for being overly dependent on economic analysis in dealing with big social problems, sometimes touching raw nerves on very sensitive issues.
All measures touching on reform of the state were removed.
And, sure enough, I experienced the invasive touching of genitals and breasts that is now standard policy for US travelers.
By desensitizing children to sexually inappropriate touching, the pat-downs are destroying those hard-won gains.
Witness how otherwise sensible adults are reduced to nervously grinning sycophants when they are granted the privilege of touching an extended royal hand.
NEW YORK - In the not-so-distant future, students will be able to graduate from high school without ever touching a book.

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