How to Use common touch in a Sentence

common touch

noun

• His good nature and common touch helped make the place run.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• And a common thread between Obama and Trump was a common touch.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 July 2019
• Despite his wealth and privilege, some say Sunak still has the common touch.
  — NBC News, 25 Nov. 2020
• Xi Jinping was first cast as a firm but genial leader with a common touch.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• The idea is to evoke trust and familiarity, a common touch.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2018
• Wiping down doorknobs and common touch points throughout the day.
  — Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2020
• In contrast to the mousy Ms Tsai, Mr Han is a natural orator with a common touch.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• Joe Biden, while no less a creature of corporate-donor Democrats than Hillary Clinton, has more of a common touch.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
• This was laden with symbolism and the common touch — clearly aimed at boosting the morale of soldiers and civilians alike.
  — Sam Mednick, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2022
• The evening’s program included a strident speech by Pirro, who praised Trump as a man with a common touch.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Asif Zardari, widely viewed as a corrupt and aloof tycoon, had neither his wife’s charm nor her common touch.
  — Shaiq Hussain, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
• The columnist suggested that Riordan would need to develop a more common touch to make the most of his job.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• The prime minister is affable and witty, a Falstaff with the common touch.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 7 June 2022
• Child may have had the common touch on camera, but her background was anything but ordinary.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2021
• That alone forced the royals to recognize that Diana’s common touch had connected with people in ways that hadn’t yet occurred to the House of Windsor.
  — Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
• People also have to be diligent about contact with common touch points such as railings and water fountains.
  — al, 19 Mar. 2020
• That was typical of the man who kept the common touch despite his fame and remained an affable character, fond of life’s simple pleasures.
  — Rob Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2020
• The new sovereign, exhibiting a common touch, shook hands and offered encouragement to those waiting to see his mother lie in state.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
• During the 1992 election, she was often deployed by the Bush campaign as a surrogate to humanize a president not known for charisma or the common touch.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2018
• Patterson’s common touch may have something to do with his onetime day job in advertising.
  — Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• Williams wielded his common touch at endless virtual forums and on front porches.
  — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 12 Dec. 2020
• Unlike Duchamp, whose work can be difficult and arcane, Baldessari is a conceptualist with a common touch.
  — Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2020
• Despite his troubles, Johnson is still adored by some Conservatives as a vote winner with a rare common touch who led the party to a big election victory in 2019.
  — Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2022
• The state also purchased plexiglass shields for every polling location and single-use stylus pens to limit common touch points, Koupal said.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020
• Cooper instantly noted Andre 3000 is a common touch point when people try to describe Smino.
  — Nathan Mattise, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2022
• Xi has also cracked down on the pomp that had previously gone with visits by high-level Chinese officials to the provinces, and flashed a deft common touch to show his connection to the ordinary person.
  — Ben Blanchard and Philip Wen / Reuters, Time, 15 Oct. 2017
• The candidate himself would fulminate in his own speech about violence in the streets, but Don Jr. eloquently heralded his father’s common touch.
  — Sarah Ellison, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
• Despite being an Old Etonian, an Oxford alumnus, and a millionaire, Johnson has tried hard to cultivate a common touch.
  — Lara Prendergast, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• Everyone knows that the barker for the bandwagon is selling a show; injecting a common touch into your presentation is simply courtesy and good sense.
  — Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• President Bill Clinton Florida and the whole country have lost a valiant patriot, a man who moved confidently through the corridors of power of many nations but who never lost his common touch.
  — Christopher Marquis, miamiherald, 15 June 2018

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024