How to Use touching in a Sentence

touching

adjective
  • Send-offs don’t get more touching.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The cleats must be touching, the back heels must be lined up straight.
    Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 10 July 2026
  • Jeanne took my hand, our flower rings touching.
    Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • There were some touching moments as well.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
    Mark Prussin, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Guy also gave a touching speech.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • There have been a lot of touching moments on this mission.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2026
  • So, getting to learn the depth of that, has been pretty touching to me.
    Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • But memes aside, there may be a touching meaning behind the scene.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Their first dance was just as personal and touching.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
  • What happens next might be the most touching tribute.
    David Wade, CBS News, 15 May 2026
  • Their neo-noir all-night trip is also full of laughs and touching moments.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 1 June 2026
  • But that’s less touching than that sounds because, of course, none of it is real.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The foul in question is called double-touching.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • That’s an arresting thought, and a touching one.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • This is both a touching answer and a very Brazilian one.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • No touching, no talking, no eye contact.
    Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Find out where the pups wound up — and what the man wrote in his touching letter to others about the pups.
    Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • But these Robertrigo duets are a rare and touching sight.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2026
  • His acceptance speech was the longest and most touching of the evening.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Make sure to have tissues on hand for this touching tearjerker.
    Women's Health, 25 May 2023
  • That goes, too, for what might be her most touching contradiction.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
  • There should’ve been a handwash step in there between the face touching and spoon touching.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • See some of the sailors’ touching reunions with their families.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • But six years later, Mark’s death is one of the more touching scenes in a series full of them.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026
  • But then to meet some of these young girls with such cute style who tell me how much my work means to them is really touching.
    Keaton Bell, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
  • That was so, so, so touching, going to a real hospital with the clowns.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Ameer’s stories are not loud but told in the most subtle and poetic ways and are deeply touching.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Mack ended his post with a touching tribute to his sibling's time on the iconic game show.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The episode, which ends as Mark dies, is a touching tribute to the character.
    TIME, 14 Mar. 2024

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