Example sentences for: palpable

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

  • Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that "the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent."

  • Fifty-three of 55 single sections from Pten +/+ glands that were free of a palpable mass did not show any lesions more advanced than ductal hyperplasia.

  • But the vein of regret, misery, and the Lynchian promise of decay is always just below the surface--and always palpable.

  • But she understood that a tone of cool authoritativeness left no room for her childhood catastrophes, her anger at getting a girl's paltry education, her palpable delight in reading.

  • are still trying, poor dears, to be outrageous" (the Washington Post ). Rachel Whiteread's work gets a sprinkling of praise, and some critics weakly contend that "the best work in the exhibition basically does what all good art should do: It makes you think" (Michael Kimmelman, the New York Times ). But the lack of enthusiasm is palpable.


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