Example sentences for: palpable

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

  • 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.

  • An inspired originator of compounds ( cloud-capp'd towers; home-keeping wits), Shakespeare created no fewer than 273 for anatomy alone, cited with almost palpable enthusiasm by Professor Spevack.

  • Under the novel's sometimes placid surface is a tug of war, which Wyler made palpable but which Holland must think will dramatize itself.

  • Figgis shoots all this through windows to make the couple's alienation palpable.

  • But the book single-handedly invented the way people think about modern Mexico, and it has a tough truthfulness that's still palpable today.


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