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Example sentences for "palpable"

Lexicographically close words:
palmos; palms; palmy; palor; palp; palpably; palpated; palpating; palpation; palpebral
  1. The one more general treatise, the work of a man foreign to both England and America in race and education, was more than 40 years old, and full of palpable errors.

  2. But the greater distinctness of American utterance, whatever its genesis and machinery, is palpable enough in many familiar situations.

  3. These little worlds are by some regarded as the atoms which, by composition, and differentiation, build up our palpable universe.

  4. Indeed, they are palpable and conspicuous in the mutual pressure of science and faith.

  5. Ogden declared the doctrine of immediate emancipation to be "a palpable and direct nullification of the Constitution.

  6. However well it may express the palpable substance and texture of objects that are but parts, if it fail in these first two rules, the colour of a picture is not good.

  7. But the Occidental, who recognizes no hidden wisdom in palpable mystification, should hesitate also to accept at their face value such historical notes as have been drafted by the same priestly hand.

  8. The outer Christianity reflected in the Puranic legends of Krishna is as palpable as it is shocking.

  9. But portions of other books, notably the first, fourth, and seventh, are probably almost as recent as are the more palpable interpolations.

  10. It is here, in these latest additions, which scarcely deserve to be ranked with the real epic, that are found the most palpable touches of Buddhism.

  11. This is the explanation of that palpable lack of clearly-expressed thought in what they say.

  12. Even the more detailed simile which grows into a parable or an allegory, is nothing more than the exhibition of some relation in its simplest, most visible and palpable form.

  13. It is admitted that all prizes, like other merchant ships, are liable to seizure and condemnation for a palpable violation of the municipal law; but that is not this case.

  14. There is, remarks Gosselin, a palpable mistake in this passage.

  15. At each end of the chain there are palpable materials, visible to corporeal sense.

  16. Yet, one palpable objection lies against this theory, and it is fatal.

  17. His discomfiture at her discovery was so palpable that it gave her courage to go on.

  18. His consternation was so palpable that it touched her in spite of herself.

  19. The scowl, which the sight of the culprit had raised on Colonel Stuart's face, deepened as he read a palpable excuse for not coming over to play ecarte.

  20. For he had worked carefully, leaving scarcely a trace behind him; and though Kirpo came forward boldly to declare his responsibility, her palpable motive for spite discredited her statements.

  21. The most obvious and palpable facts discredit these Judaists and accredit me.

  22. I cannot understand why you should wish to complicate this unhappy affair still further by such a palpable injustice.

  23. Later on you shall hear, perhaps," Vane responds, ambiguously, and with very palpable confusion.

  24. And full of this wonder, he sets himself to watch the young baronet, who hovers around Reine with the palpable desire of the "moth for the star.

  25. He leaned over the pillow, and put his finger on the scarcely palpable pulse.

  26. It is singular how much is understood by trifles when the mind has a clue to the subject, and how often signs, that are palpable as day, are overlooked when suspicion is not awakened, or when the thoughts have obtained a false direction.

  27. Every one hurried on deck, where, sure enough, the dreaded coast of Africa was seen, with a palpable distinctness, within two miles of the vessel.

  28. This we ascertained only by hearing, for we could not distinguish an object six feet from our faces--the darkness being almost palpable to the touch.

  29. Lally after tea read us a beginning of a new tragedy, composed upon an Irish story, but bearing allusion so palpable to the virtues and misfortunes of Louis XVI.

  30. No base can be credited to a base runner as having been stolen which is the result of a dropped fly ball, a wild throw to a base player, or a palpable muff in fielding a batted ball.

  31. This is the broad, palpable fact, let sophistry disguise or evade it as it may.

  32. And this constitutional melancholy opposed to the habitual frivolity (it never deserved to be called mirth) of the French is now more palpable than ever.

  33. So long as my husband lived, I shut your image out of my mind as I would have shut out the Prince of Darkness, if he had come to me in a palpable shape.

  34. I faced the fields of corn up the mountain-side, the hot thunderous air came rolling down in palpable billows, and oppressive clouds took possession of the surrounding hills.

  35. She continued bitter towards Phoebe, and kept such a watch over her and Sir Bevil, that the jealous surveillance became palpable to both.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palpable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apparent; appreciable; axiomatic; blatant; clear; concrete; conspicuous; detectable; discernible; distinct; evident; explicit; express; indisputable; indubitable; live; manifest; material; naked; noticeable; observable; obvious; open; palpable; patent; perceivable; perceptible; perspicuous; physical; plain; real; sensible; solid; straightforward; substantial; substantive; tangible; unambiguous; unequivocal; univocal; unmistakable; visible