touchy

Example Sentences

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Dealings with Saudi Arabia have been a touchy subject in Hollywood since the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

The creation — and Carter’s expansion — of Redwood National Park has long been a touchy subject along California’s rural, economically depressed North Coast, where the once-thriving logging industry cratered over the last half-century.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

Do business people want to see that horse, now creaking with age and even more touchy and unpredictable, let loose in the ICU all over again?

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2024

In most touchy situations where she’s called the play, the numbers moved because people trusted her instincts.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2024

He was a handsome man who had a great deal of money but was not “society” and was overly aware of it and very touchy about it.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara