Sentence examples for ask to touch from inspiring English sources

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In 1984, in Hamamatsu, Japan, I was often stared at, and little children would sometimes run away or ask to touch my hair.

He said passages about Obama's youth in Hawaii had reminded him of his own experience with subtle racism in the affluent, mostly white suburb of Harrington Park, N.J. "You know, what it's like growing up every single day and having people ask to touch your hair because they've never seen hair like that," Booker said.

"I'm not offended when people ask to touch it.

Well, that's kind of how I feel about comedians, except that I already know not to ask to touch their hair.

Immediately after senior cadets return to the barracks after receiving their rings, fourth class cadets take the opportunity to surround senior cadets from their company and ask to touch their rings.

Or they might ask to touch your hair, follow you around a shop, or, as I had the pleasure of experiencing in December last year, spit on you in the street and call you a black bitch.

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"You may be asked to touch someone.

In one part of the test, the volunteers are asked to touch a box when it lights up on screen.

He could not take the final step, in which he was asked to touch the part of the glass cage closest to the tarantula.

I ask if she gets approached in the street by smart-alecky fans asking to touch her (Alisha's superpower is the ability to drive those who touch her mad with sexual frenzy).

In response, an activist named April Reign tweeted, "#OscarsSoWhite they asked to touch my hair," launching a hashtag movement that laid Hollywood's diversity problems at the Academy's feet.

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