Sample Sentences for
tangible
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    It was a music more tangible than form or sight.  (source)
    tangible = real (clearly evident)
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    But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.  (source)
    tangible = touchable
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    Normally Connor would walk away from a conversation like this. His life is about tangibles: things you can see, hear, and touch. God, souls, and all that has always been like a secret in a black box he couldn't see into, so it was easier to just leave it alone.  (source)
    tangibles = capable of being touched, or easily understood so there is no question of its value or reality
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    My exclusion is tangible, as if concrete walls have formed around me.  (source)
    tangible = so evident (or obvious) it seems like it can be touched
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    She paused, as if to add weight to her already tangibly heavy words.  (source)
    tangibly = so real or weighty they seem capable of being touched
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    And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their tangibility promised to us, wrongly ....wrongly, an immortality.†  (source)
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    After all, with so many tangibles socking my gut, a "might be, but probably nothing to worry about" didn't exactly top my list.†  (source)
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    Roots were in ownership of land, in tangible and immovable possessions.  (source)
    tangible = capable of being touched
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    It was a feeling that grew among us almost tangibly, and I could tell that Ruth, absorbed in a picture on the other side of the room, was feeling it as much as anyone.†  (source)
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    I ran my fingers along these names, along the letters of them; despite their hardness, their tangibility, they appeared to soften under my touch, to fade, to waver.†  (source)
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    But land is a tangible, and tangibles have a way of getting into few hands.†  (source)
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    In anticipation of some tangible return.  (source)
    tangible = clearly valuable
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    More tangibly, there is a packet nestled in a small cubby of Lincoln's upright desk.†  (source)
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