Sentence examples for had just touched from inspiring English sources

It had swollen lips, lips which had just touched mine.

His second header of the evening had just touched the back of the Brazilian net, and Zinedine Zidane grabbed the front of his French jersey and kissed his own number.

An Eastern Airlines jetliner landing here tonight collided with a twin-engine aircraft that had just touched down, killing one person and injuring another aboard the smaller plane, officials said.

The 192-foot-long, 59-foot-high blimp had just touched the ground about 1 p.m. with about 10 people tugging on mooring ropes from the nose when a gust of wind blew the airship about 20 feet.

"Who proved that these men were guilty?" No one answered because Commander Zazai had just touched on the crux of the legal debate that has raged for nearly a decade in the United States: Does the United States have the legal right to hold, indefinitely without charge or trial, people captured on the battlefield?

Two years later Cueto nearly grabbed the headlines when he thought he had scored for England early on in the second half of the World Cup final, but replays showed his foot had just touched the line before he dived over in the corner.

And so having just touched on it, I'm going to have to put it aside.

Donald N. Horenstein Shelburne, Vt., Feb. 15, 2008 • To the Editor: David Brooks has just touched the third rail of social politics: family values.

"It's a multisystem failure," Mr. Frist said, adding, "we may have just touched the tip of the iceberg on".

He goes to the register and thinks he has just touched a money box when the police come and arrest him.

Miracles are happening outside: The sun has just touched the horizon, and suddenly the swamps are a chiaroscuro of black islands and orange water.