painful to the touch

phrase

: hurting if touched

His ankle is swollen and painful to the touch.

Examples of painful to the touch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Both are painful to the touch, wounds that take a real long time to heal, and not enough distance has passed between them and now. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026

These bumps will feel tender or painful to the touch and look highly irritated. — 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

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

Because Lee stacked three lasers before getting Rejuran, her face was painful to the touch, too. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

Rhymes for painful to the touch

• clutch
• crutch
• cutch
• dutch
• hutch
• much
• mutch
• such
• insomuch
• overmuch
• nonesuch
• retouch