tickled

Example Sentences

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"It just really tickled me - it's the contradiction," he said.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Instead of having its belly tickled and rolling over, Aronimink bit back on day one of the season's second major.

From BBC • 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

A few seconds later I get the sensation of being tickled on the bottoms of both my feet.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston