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restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
She repaired her TV set
Repair my shoes please - refer to or discuss briefly
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be relevant to
There were lots of questions referring to her talk
My remark pertained to your earlier comments -
have an effect upon
Will the new rules affect me?
How To Use touch on In A Sentence
- The student group tours touch on all aspects of the medical laboratory such as hematology, microbiology, virology and cytopathology. The Daily News - News
- In the bowl is a teaspoon of alum, for him to dip his finger into and touch onto the canker sore in his cheek. AUGUST HEAT
- The TRC statement did not touch on the crucial issues of the case, namely the ambit and scope of the TRC's functions, and the conduct of Boraine in particular. ANC Daily News Briefing
- In other cases, mealtime social interactions were non-verbal and included a smile, a gentle touch on the leg, or eye contact between two people, all of which could be considered a form of emotional nurturance.
- A gentle touch on her cheek, then her arm.
- There was absolute silence for a while, then a feather-light touch on my hair.
- It would be the easiest folly in the world to fall in love with her: there is such a sweet babylike roundness about her face and figure; the delicate dark rings of hair lie so charmingly about her ears and neck; her great dark eyes with their long eye-lashes touch one so strangely, as if an imprisoned frisky sprite looked out of them. Adam Bede
- Yet the very decision not to touch only served to heighten the awareness of what could happen when they did.
- The president praised teachers for their meritorious service in educating students, but declined to touch on teachers' complaints about their meager wages and poor living conditions.
- But having broached the thorny issue of using government entities to boost housing, the Fed didn't touch on questions surrounding a needed long-term revamp of housing finance. Fed Up With the Depressed State of Housing