How to Use touchy in a Sentence

touchy

adjective

• Don't be so touchy. I was just kidding.
• The big Brembo brakes are strong and sure if a bit touchy at first.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• This season’s snowpack has been one of the most touchy in decades.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Mar. 2021
• The subject of battery life is a touchy one for the Pixel.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 3 Aug. 2020
• But in a sign of how touchy and tricky the contract talks are this year, the DGA was not the early bird to the table.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023
• Then the touchy question, the one nobody wants to answer straight.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2019
• The first is that conquest by the French is still a touchy subject in some circles.
  — The Economist, 17 Jan. 2018
• Did some touchy-feely old hippie once say that a rut is just a groove that lasts too long?
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 30 May 2018
• A Boy, this is a very touchy subject with folks in the Livermore area.
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2017
• End of carousel Adult friendship is touchy, Cotz and others said.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• The artists are a bit touchy on that aspect of their work — the idea that something designed to go down the hatch could not be art.
  — Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
• This is a touchy subject with my boyfriend, let alone his mother.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2021
• As a mother of two sons, both of whom played youth football, this a touchy subject for me.
  — Julie Dicaro, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• The topic of hourly earnings in the world of ride-sharing is extremely touchy.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2018
• The touch screen is touchy for fat fingers and the screen is high in the center stack and vulnerable to glare in sunshine.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 June 2018
• The gap between the lifestyles of the average Vietnamese and those of the party’s top brass is a touchy subject.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
• The touchy cargo was headed for France, where it would be packed into shells to break the Great War’s three-year stalemate.
  — Time, 21 Dec. 2017
• First and foremost, touching can be a well, touchy, issue.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 12 July 2018
• While any on-air mention of his wooden leg was taboo, Pyne wasn’t always so touchy.
  — Kevin Cook, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
• This is such a touchy subject for the all-male partnerships that few investors want to discuss it—on the record or not.
  — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2015
• Tanking is such a touchy subject that even its proponents cringe at the term.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2018
• Focus on being light and easy, and avoid those who are difficult and touchy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2018
• Doing a film that dates to the past like this can be a touchy subject for our community.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
• On the way back from this drop-off, Janice got a little too close to the touchy blackbird’s personal space.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2019
• Ongais notes that the rear brake on the bike is touchy, tending to upset the machine too easily.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 10 June 2020
• Moreover, Girls has never been a touchy-feely, wrap-everything-with-a-bow kind of show.
  — Laura Bradley, HWD, 10 Apr. 2017
• If this advice sounds too touchy-feely, consider the science that backs it up.
  — Emily Richmond, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2017
• Answering that question required the writers to make a few changes to the story, which can be touchy.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• The health of tequila’s sole raw material is, indeed, a touchy subject.
  — Chantal Martineau, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2015
• The song itself is lyrically complex and clear-sighted in its treatment of the touchy subject of addiction.
  — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024