tickling

Example Sentences

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“In my dream, you kept getting closer to me, and then you started tickling me,” Linda tells him during a session, early in the film.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2025

Henson also noted at the time that former Dodgers third baseman Adrián Beltré had “reported a ghostly presence turning on lights and tickling his toes” during a 2001 stay at the Pfister.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

Sir Ken Dodd's joke books, tickling sticks and other artefacts are to be preserved in a new £15m centre dedicated to the late comedy legend in his home city of Liverpool.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024

“Training Season,” her demand for a partner who already knows “how to love me right,” has tickling guitar syncopations and girl-group harmonies popping out of nowhere.

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

And Turner couldn’t help tickling each of them in the stomach—especially Ben and Meg Newton, who laughed like Abbie and Perlie.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt