How to Use palpate in a Sentence

palpate

verb

• His friends are doctors, and one of them put King on a couch and palpated his stomach.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 2020-03-04
• The doctor palpates her neck, peers into her throat, scopes her sinuses.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 2018-01-18
• Teachers and students forget that the ability to palpate is not the same as the ability to feel.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 2016-04-22
• For the spine, elaborate wooden racks would be used in conjunction with the surgeon’s body weight to palpate or stretch the patient.
  — Jack Hartnell, Time, 2019-10-30
• Afterward, each student allegedly came up to palpate her muscle.
  — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 2020-02-27
• My body continues to buzz as the physician’s assistant palpates my breasts, now made of abdominal tissue surgically sewn into place.
  — Bryna Siegel Finer, Philly.com, 2018-01-10
• Determined faces, arms and hands plunged into a heap of apricots, one euro per kilo, palpating and rejecting them, stuffing them in bags, in a joyous frenzy of gathering.
  — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 2023-03-07