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Example sentences for: touching

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The egg is swept over the body of the person without touching them, while prayers are recited, such as the Hail Mary and the Our Father.
washing hands or touching car doors, it gave mefreedom with walls so I could handle bulging and sagging when I had to; and one of the summers I read Steinbeck and made love--in the bedroom--
The mnemonist, S., is a touching character whose "disorder" is the most poetic imaginable even as it brings him torment.
It is very touching to see the home movies of Tiffany York, born with mermaid syndrome, or sirenomelia (in which the legs are fused together), taking her first tottery steps after corrective surgery, and to listen to her talking philosophically about her life as she floats in a Florida swimming pool.
Trotter states that “the presence of the curandero, the soothing effect of the sweepings (touching), and the low-key monotone chant of the prayers produces in the patient a light trance state that is comforting and reassuring” (Trotter and Chavira 1997, 82).