Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible. | Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable. | (medicine) That can be detected by palpation.
How to use Palpable in a Sentence?
The most palpable absurdity at the moment was that there was nothing in the hut to beat him with.
This is palpable evidence that at any rate we are going to feel our way forward.
All their faces are distinct in the lamplight, all their bodies ate palpable and dramatic.
It will come drifting back on the current of memory, fresh and palpable as ever.
The slighter variations in the state of the blood have equally sure, though less palpable effects.
It seemed to Dick merely the palpable result of an inheritance that had gone into the blood.
Hugh and Westervelt maintained silence, but their opposition was as palpable as a cold wind.
Even in a day's visit he felt the grim destroyer's presence, palpable as the shadow of a cloud.
In shape as palpable they come, as doth Each outward image rise to corporeal sense.
This was a palpable falsehood, but Mr. Burke accepted the lame excuse without question.
The Bill is a palpable project to buy every one at the expense of the Irish Church.
Sixty years had moulded the steady and inflexible purpose of his soul in lines too palpable to be misunderstood.
He was drifting on a stream which sickened him, towards a palpable goal which he contemplated with terror.
The other halls had been in total darkness, but the blackness of this place appeared something palpable and weighty.
If the society is in a state of equilibrium, there will be a palpable agreement between what all severally expect and what all severally perform.
The girl had seated herself on one end of an extremely comfortless lounge and was making a palpable effort to seem at ease.
It is really a princely estate, with even greater hidden resources than those palpable and open to view.
It would be quite ridiculous, however, for me to attempt seriously to refute such a palpable imposture.
The happy mean between making too much of palpable differences and hurrying on to a similar rendering of similar signs is the rarest of gifts.
Some workmen standing near executed this order with the utmost despatch, much fearing a more palpable display of wrath.
And most palpable in it was the unrest, which spoke of an endless struggle with life, and had ended by goading him into incessant wandering.
For, so far from supporting it, these columns are the most convincing, the most direct and palpable refutation of his theory.
It is not exactly a noxious atmosphere; there is no palpable unpleasant odour in it, but it is used up, it is stale.
The palpable want of tact reveals in this man how the absence of the true 'gentleman element' can spoil a great intellect.
The first palpable symptom of general improvement, was the gradual return of his love for botany, and pleasure in the pursuit.
But to parish relief there was a distinct and palpable step: a step that, on the whole, it seemed easier not to take.
It is palpable that the elder Crashaw was spared the distress of the apostacy (as he should most trenchantly have named it) of his only son.
And if the debtor is able to pay one shilling more than he offers, it is a cheat, a palpable fraud, and of so much he actually robs his creditor.
To me you have appeared always calm, but never sad; but to-day there is a palpable weight of sorrow on you, which a child might read.
The absurdity of ascribing to John the Evangelist the possession of such an oratory is too palpable a falsehood to require any comment.
Above the canyon there were no stars visible; and below, it was wrapped in darkness, thick, velvety, palpable as lamp-black.
There all was either crowds, or solitude; the effort to seem delighted, or palpable discontent; extravagant festivity, or bitterness and frowns.
Short Example Sentence for Palpable
He looked up at her in a palpable relief.
A hit, a very palpable hit.
This palpable truth progress could not bear to listen to.
I was instantly sensible of this palpable contrivance to secure my return.
It's a lie, a palpable lie.
I could not utter this last sentence without palpable emotion.
Clothing the palpable and familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn.
Tis but the mental image to the brain Recoiling: yet as palpable it comes!