Sentence examples for touchy on from inspiring English sources

The army is still touchy on the subject.

"I can understand Obama being touchy on the subject of producing your papers," he said.

I understand that Mr. Penn is touchy on the likability issue.

Mr. Rocks is the state census director and, therefore, a little touchy on this subject, but he has a point.

For Samuelsson, who is a little touchy on the subject of gentrification, coming to Harlem has been as much about job creation as anything else.

The American public has historically been pretty indifferent to allegations of sexual misbehavior by its elected officials, but you could understand why South Carolinians might be a little touchy on the subject.

Duncan has supported the unions on certain issues — such as devoting more resources to early-childhood education and pressing for more rigorous national teacher-certification standards — and moved closer to them on touchier ones.

(RNS) What was supposed to be a touchy-feely, one-on-one interview by Oprah Winfrey with long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad has morphed into a broader, sometimes angry exchange about what it means to be an atheist.

But many say the French are by far the touchiest on the issue because their concerns might go well beyond protecting movies and television programs, extending to concerns that the French way of farming and standards for food imports could be threatened by a more uniform trans-Atlantic approach to commerce.

I know I am on touchy turf, but to save generations of strife, I offer the following advice and considerations when deciding what to pass on or let go.

Permanently moving banking jobs out of New York or London is a touchy subject on Wall Street.