Sentence examples for touch a table from inspiring English sources

You touch a table but you don't feel it.

When we touch a table, while we conceive of it and often form beliefs about it, we also sense it.

"Merely touching a table surface that had the taint of milk could provoke an itchy rash," his father explains.

When the sightseers had gone, we sent for the proprietor, who came over to us, walking briskly and only once or twice checking his course by touching a table.

In an interview videotaped before his death, Mr. Fan said he had been secretly confined in a military reserve camp for five months and shackled to an iron bar — once, for five days straight — with only his toes touching a table.

In the case of tactile perception, Reid says that given certain experiential inputs, such as the pressure sensations evoked upon touching a table, we form judgments about the hardness of the table.

He learns that "heartache, like love, like low-grade fevers, like the longing to reach out and touch a hand across the table, is easy enough to live down".

Participants were first asked to rest both hands on the table and touch a home pad with their thumbs (5 cm from the edge of the table and 13 cm to either side of the midline).

It's not often, if at all, that you'll see someone turn off a light by reaching out and touching a plant sitting on the table.

It's improper to even allow the handle of a utensil to touch the table while the other end rests on the plate.

(A report in the Times said that one of the e-mails accused Kelley of "touching" Petraeus under a table.