How do you use Touchy in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like huffy or feisty, plus the exact meaning.
Touchy in a sentence
Touchy meaning
- Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.
- Easily offended, oversensitive.
- Inclined to engage in physical touch.
Using Touchy
- The main meaning on this page is: Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness. | Easily offended, oversensitive. | Inclined to engage in physical touch.
- Useful related words include: huffy, thin-skinned, feisty, sensitive.
- In the example corpus, touchy often appears in combinations such as: touchy subject, the touchy, be touchy.
Context around Touchy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Touchy
- In this selection, "touchy" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, got, safeguarding, vulnerable, subject, feely and issue stand out and add context to how "touchy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are a touchy issue in and be a touchy subject. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "touchy" sits close to words such as abated, aberrations and activations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with touchy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It is a touchy subject in India. (7 words)
Issues about politics, religion and race are touchy. (8 words)
I’m a genuinely humble, vulnerable, touchy-feely soul. (9 words)
It's one of the best and funniest episodes because parents, kids, and teachers can all relate to what Peggy and the family deal with when it comes to a variety of issues all related to the scholastic application of this touchy subject. (43 words)
Dean said getting engaged was simply "a touchy subject" in his relationship, adding, "Caelynn makes significantly more money than I do and here I am having to spend all this money on something I don't even want. (38 words)
This however seems to reinvent the long held notion of conspiracies and intrigues bordering on the touchy subject and even the very concept of insecurity — state sponsored and the heinous activities of non-state actors. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
As defence exports are a touchy issue in Germany, foreign countries usually do not directly submit a formal request for re-export to the German authorities.
Dean said getting engaged was simply "a touchy subject" in his relationship, adding, "Caelynn makes significantly more money than I do and here I am having to spend all this money on something I don't even want.
I think he’s touchy with things and you can’t be that in the Glasgow environment.
It's one of the best and funniest episodes because parents, kids, and teachers can all relate to what Peggy and the family deal with when it comes to a variety of issues all related to the scholastic application of this touchy subject.
Paid leave programs have historically been a touchy subject between Scott and Democratic legislators, with Scott vetoing Democratic lawmakers’ plans twice in recent years.
The revelations that have leaked from Prince Harry’s memoir, which is scheduled to be released Tuesday, include the touchy subjects of Camilla, Queen Consort, and William’s hairline.
They didn’t really waste time on a touchy-feely goodbye for any of their longtime employees, either.
According to sources, the two got "touchy-feely" fairly soon after, and photographers managed to sneak some images of them getting intimate.
Actors like to think of themselves as sensitive, but more often than not it's just another word for touchy.
By perceiving designs ordinary of simulated intelligence created assaults, these devices assist with safeguarding touchy data and frameworks.
Considering how many possible viewpoints there are, and I only touched on a few popular ones, it’s easy to see why this can be a touchy subject.
I’m a genuinely humble, vulnerable, touchy-feely soul.
Initially, I thought it would be a touch too Oprah/Gwyneth/touchy-feely.
Issues about politics, religion and race are touchy.
It was more touchy-feely than it had ever been in the past.
This however seems to reinvent the long held notion of conspiracies and intrigues bordering on the touchy subject and even the very concept of insecurity — state sponsored and the heinous activities of non-state actors.
I’m not a touchy-feely person, I hate traveling and large crowds and I always carry hand sanitizer in my purse.
It is a touchy subject in India.
It received a rating of 8.5 from IMDb, and it fully earned it for the excellence in which it portrayed this touchy subject.
Allegations have come from several female students at Richland High School who claim the teacher, John Bittenger, has been touchy-feely, staring at students breasts and looked up a student's dress.
Common combinations with touchy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: