palpate
Example Sentences
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His September 2020 checkup seemed uneventful — until the internist began palpating his neck.
From Washington Post
“Being poked and palpated and locked in a room for days on end without a release date was maddening,” she writes.
From New York Times
There’s something both tender and disturbing in watching fingers attached to a flayed arm palpate a flayed leg, especially when the exposed bones touch like foreheads pressed together.
From New York Times
They listened to its heart and lungs, palpated its stomach, tested its suckle reflex and moved its limbs to assess the development of its bones and muscles.
From Washington Post
It used to involve actually seeing and touching the things you wanted: palpating a pomegranate, stroking the lining of a suit, sitting in a chair.
From Washington Post
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