palpable
IPA: pˈæɫpʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
- (figurative) Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
- (medicine) That can be detected by palpation.
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Examples of "palpable" in Sentences
- The same is palpable from the sphere here assigned to him.
- Mofokeng recalls the palpable confusion and fear that ensued.
- This we would call a palpable lie were not so much of _The Bible in Spain_ sheer invention.
- The tension between them is palpable, if the definition of "palpable" is: You can see it on TV.
- Seeing the fields rimmed by trees or the homey, rundown tavern really makes the earth and the rain palpable to the reader.
- So palpable is this fact that we have commonly accepted it, and taken it for granted that this relation must be a continuous source of trouble to humanity.
- "The feeling of negativity in the market is palpable, which is why one needs to respect the possibility of a counter-trend rally of decent size in the near term that is fueled by short-covering activity."
- Being conversant with it in my master's family, it was an easy matter for me to coin a palpable lie -- so, whenever I was asked where I was going, and what my business was, (as was often the case) my invariable answer was, that I was looking for a stray horse which had broken from my master's fields.
- A familiar aura of sweetness and loss reminiscent of Salinger is palpable from the first pages of the book, when we meet Jane's older brother Henry, who, by introducing his "mature" girlfriend to the family has indelibly altered the paradigm of familial relationships with which young Jane is accustomed.
- Quenched, inhuman, his fingers upon her unrevealed nudity were the fingers of silence upon silence, the body of mysterious night upon the body of mysterious night, the night masculine and feminine, never to be seen with the eye, or known with the mind, only known as a palpable revelation of living otherness.
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