Sentence examples for scarcely touching from inspiring English sources

"scarcely touching" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a very light touch or contact. For example, "She placed her hand on mine, scarcely touching it."

Exact(3)

Sweeps one along, rather, with one's feet scarcely touching the ground, on a lightning tour of the gods who have ruled his life.

The speculative property market is just one current in the great flow of cash that sluices through Britain while scarcely touching the sides.

And over the next few days, I uncharacteristically picked at my food, forcing a couple of spoons of breakfast granola and yogurt into my system just to eat something, neglecting lunch altogether, and scarcely touching dinner.

Similar(57)

Yet the disease scarcely touched them.

It will scarcely touch the sides.

Loughinisland had been scarcely touched by the Troubles.

Midcentury Americans could scarcely touch a dial without hearing Miss Rio.

But it has scarcely touched me, nor anyone else I know, directly.

But getting rid of those two eyesores scarcely touched the problem.

But the topic was scarcely touched as the PM delivered his latest announcement on Iraq.

Hoffman dowses his scarcely touched cigarette, and gets in the car.

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