tickled

Example Sentences

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But I also adored that Frémaux was so clearly tickled to valorize an audience-thrilling blockbuster, because Cannes can do that, too.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

We were tickled, then, to see another iteration of our favorite story appear in Politico amid Becerra’s rise: an anonymity-heavy piece quoting the politician’s former administration colleagues calling him a loser.

From Slate • May 9, 2026

At last year’s staging of “A Streetcar Named Desire” with Paul Mescal, theatergoers were positively tickled as Blanche DuBois spiraled.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

"He went to open the curtain and the window was like really tiny, that really tickled me - it was like a prison cell," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

Questions started to fill my head as the grass tickled my ankles.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas