impalpable
Example Sentences
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Through their lenses, we see different visions of the artist in his studio, surrounded by his attempts to capture something solid but impalpable about humanity.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022
I had been pushed and pulled by the dominant forces of that place, some impalpable and some visible, as it formed and forced me into the imperfect person who eventually became a mother.
From Salon • May 2, 2020
The ghost sides with the girl, lending an impalpable hand, and if that sounds funny — well, yes.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2020
A Dionysian spirit is reined in and refined until it becomes a precise worldly expression of something impalpable and divine.
From New York Times • May 29, 2014
It was exactly as if he was invisible, inaudible, impalpable.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing impalpable
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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Dracula
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 1–5
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