Example sentences for: palpable

How can you use “palpable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The feeling of speed and change and something different was palpable.

  • The softness and hardness at issue here are not, of course, the words having literally to do with the physical properties of the same name, but rather the higher, metaphorical qualities associated with the words: that is, hard in the sense of "stern," "uncompromising," "grim," "tough," "realistic," "verifiable," or "physically palpable"; and soft in the sense of "moderate," "subjective," "subject to emotion," "simple," "idealistic," "weak," or "physically immaterial."

  • Ideally, content validity studies attempt to compare a test with a reference standard of the same phenomenon as that which is being palpated, i.e., palpable abnormalities in structure, motion and soft tissue.

  • This kind of progress is messy, but it is real and palpable.

  • Night has fallen, and Mischief opts for flinty grays and blacks, the city-slickness and palpable sexuality of Cronenberg's Crash and Verhoeven's Basic Instinct . Clever camera work tilts the asphalt, giving the spot some depth and visual interest.


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