tickler

Example Sentences

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Brain ticklers include: Did Ice Age people live in igloos?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 14, 2015

"Back ticklers" in the seats thump as an astronaut dodges fireballs and rolls on the ground.

From Chicago Tribune • Jul. 7, 2012

Beyond ivory ticklers, Earshot's 23rd edition showcases a rich variety of constituencies — women, very young players, locally connected musicians, world musicians and, as always, the Dutch avant-garde.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2011

Remembering the 1937 crop of traffic jams, the broken windows, the roistering funsters with water pistols and electric ticklers, most New Yorkers felt much the same way.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Tomorrow,” he announced, “a modern factory, devoted solely to the manufacture of ticklers, will be erected on that site.”

From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Leiber, Fritz