How to Use touchy in a Sentence

touchy

adjective

• Don't be so touchy. I was just kidding.
• This is a touchy subject with my boyfriend, let alone his mother.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2021
• This season’s snowpack has been one of the most touchy in decades.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Mar. 2021
• The big Brembo brakes are strong and sure if a bit touchy at first.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Did some touchy-feely old hippie once say that a rut is just a groove that lasts too long?
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 30 May 2018
• People are very touchy about finances.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2025
• Why do demons, ghosts and killers put me at ease but sending a touchy email or text stops me in my tracks?
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• Then the touchy question, the one nobody wants to answer straight.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2019
• Here are some healthy ways to navigate through touchy subjects.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• But with stocks trading near record highs, markets are a little touchy.
  — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
• As a mother of two sons, both of whom played youth football, this a touchy subject for me.
  — Julie Dicaro, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• People are touchy during the Full Moon.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
• Tanking is such a touchy subject that even its proponents cringe at the term.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2018
• End of carousel Adult friendship is touchy, Cotz and others said.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• Focus on being light and easy, and avoid those who are difficult and touchy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2018
• The first is that conquest by the French is still a touchy subject in some circles.
  — The Economist, 17 Jan. 2018
• If this advice sounds too touchy-feely, consider the science that backs it up.
  — Emily Richmond, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2017
• If money or chores feel touchy with someone at home, don’t try to fix everything at once.
  — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2026
• While any on-air mention of his wooden leg was taboo, Pyne wasn’t always so touchy.
  — Kevin Cook, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
• Doing a film that dates to the past like this can be a touchy subject for our community.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
• The topic of hourly earnings in the world of ride-sharing is extremely touchy.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2018
• The artists are a bit touchy on that aspect of their work — the idea that something designed to go down the hatch could not be art.
  — Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
• The truth is that after several tight years, gift-giving remains a touchy and pricey prospect for many of us.
  — Carmen Wong Ulrich, Good Housekeeping, 15 Nov. 2011
• The gardener has a long, touchy-feely relationship with the soil.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 23 Aug. 2017
• This is such a touchy subject for the all-male partnerships that few investors want to discuss it—on the record or not.
  — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2015
• So, how can parents address the touchy subjects of weight and body image with their teens in ways that are helpful to them?
  — Susan A. Gutierrez, M.d., miamiherald, 22 May 2018
• Moreover, Girls has never been a touchy-feely, wrap-everything-with-a-bow kind of show.
  — Laura Bradley, HWD, 10 Apr. 2017
• Ongais notes that the rear brake on the bike is touchy, tending to upset the machine too easily.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 10 June 2020
• Answering that question required the writers to make a few changes to the story, which can be touchy.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• The touch screen is touchy for fat fingers and the screen is high in the center stack and vulnerable to glare in sunshine.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 June 2018