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Example sentences for: touches

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

You can refine it by maximizing the surface that touches the burner, putting a whistle at the end of the spout, and providing a lever to open the spout.
Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to have an opinion.
Most readers of VERBATIM would, I am sure, have been as intrigued as I was to discover that a yeoman is “an English landowner often having municipal functions”; that in tennis a ball is net “when it touches the top of the summit [ sic ] of the net separating the two sides”; that a starting block has “compartments in which race-horses are put before the off so they can all leave simultaneously”; and that brick is the English for “a sailing-ship with two masts” --taking part, maybe, in a lofing match: “in a sailing-boat regatta, the action of one of the participants consisting in an attempt to bring one of his rivals head to the wind.”
The Introduction touches on the origin of proverbs and their similarity in other languages.
The buildings that line the boulevard are routinely six or more storeys high, many with ornate architectural touches.