Examples of painful to the touch in a Sentence
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These bumps will feel tender or painful to the touch and look highly irritated.
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Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 16 June 2025
When your skin feels painful to the touch during a breakout, this retinol will simultaneously help calm inflammation and treat your acne.
—Devon Abelman, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2024
Some arthritis can become so severe that the joints are inflamed, swollen, and painful to the touch.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
He was sent home with a tetanus shot and antibiotics, but the injury got worse over the next few days, becoming red, swollen and painful to the touch.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 9 June 2023
These types of pimples can feel painful to the touch.
—Sydney Poe, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2021
The rash is red, sometimes itchy and painful to the touch, and can be as much five or six inches across.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2021
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Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 16 June 2025
When your skin feels painful to the touch during a breakout, this retinol will simultaneously help calm inflammation and treat your acne.
—Devon Abelman, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2024
Some arthritis can become so severe that the joints are inflamed, swollen, and painful to the touch.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
He was sent home with a tetanus shot and antibiotics, but the injury got worse over the next few days, becoming red, swollen and painful to the touch.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 9 June 2023
These types of pimples can feel painful to the touch.
—Sydney Poe, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2021
The rash is red, sometimes itchy and painful to the touch, and can be as much five or six inches across.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2021
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“Painful to the touch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/painful%20to%20the%20touch. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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