palpable

Example Sentences

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At the precipice of an odyssey that will challenge the half-lives they’ve lived so far, the sisters’ anger is palpable.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

Hearts blew a gasket in trying to get level; their intensity and desire to score was so palpable that you could reach out and touch it.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

The excitement about what’s next for memory stocks is palpable, but some investors question whether it’s sustainable.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Their sinuous, shape-shifting abstractions—glorifying combat, monsters, mystery and metamorphosis—gave magical, palpable form to the terrifying foes and forces, real and imagined, that shadowed their world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Kabuo Miyamoto, his net set, his radio off, the fog as palpable as cotton around him, replaced the line he’d left on Carl’s boat with a reserve he kept stowed in his galley.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson