How to Use touchy in a Sentence

touchy

adjective
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  • This season’s snowpack has been one of the most touchy in decades.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The subject of battery life is a touchy one for the Pixel.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 3 Aug. 2020
  • But in a sign of how touchy and tricky the contract talks are this year, the DGA was not the early bird to the table.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Then the touchy question, the one nobody wants to answer straight.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2019
  • End of carousel Adult friendship is touchy, Cotz and others said.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
  • This is a touchy subject with my boyfriend, let alone his mother.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The gap between the lifestyles of the average Vietnamese and those of the party’s top brass is a touchy subject.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • First and foremost, touching can be a well, touchy, issue.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 12 July 2018
  • Focus on being light and easy, and avoid those who are difficult and touchy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2018
  • 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
  • On the way back from this drop-off, Janice got a little too close to the touchy blackbird’s personal space.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2019
  • 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
  • Here are some healthy ways to navigate through touchy subjects.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • That was a touchy point for opera house board members, some of whom were involved in the questionable decision to chop up the stage in the first place.
    — Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • And while the teenage years can be a touchy time for kids in terms of being embarrassed by their parents, Moses seems to be the exception.
    — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2020
  • Even my tweets became a subject so touchy that most of my AsAm colleagues decided that was the time to avoid me or ice me out.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 14 July 2022
  • The bulk of the messages went unreturned, leaving the kind of awkward silence that lingers when a touchy subject is raised.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2020
  • The app is doing so with a touchy-feely, fight-the-power vibe designed to move millennials.
    — Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Great, except the touchy colt then wheeled around sharply in the winner’s circle and flattened a surprised Baffert.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Elfrid Payton has been a touchy subject on Knicks Twitter for quite some time now.
    — Tom Rende, Forbes, 23 May 2021
  • Just ten minutes of touchy grabby then the kicker runs away wearing a new necklace.
    — Popular Science, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Page Six reported that they were seen getting touchy at a New Year’s Eve party.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 15 Mar. 2023
  • So this has become kind of a controversial and touchy thing in the industry.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2021
  • And this is what bothers me also, man race is such a touchy subject because very few people have a pure heart.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The studio had a very different notion of what the music should be, and David was really touchy about it.
    — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2022
  • But post-quake taxation is already a touchy topic in the country, and could prove risky in an election year.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • But the DoSeum caters to children, and so staffers there had to find ways to keep their squirmy, touchy, run-everywhere clientele safe.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Trust that the touchiest spots and most tender desires are what wants to come undone and flow freely from your luscious loins.
    — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 3 Oct. 2018
  • People spend a lot of money to win and everybody’s touchy about everything.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2024

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