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

He was born to pose backlit by a pyre of flaming zombies and does so here, with the hot wind tickling his locks perfectly.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

The unusually sedate gathering ended with Fury tickling the champion after the obligatory face-off.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 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

My yellow Converse sank into an inch of flattened hay, and my sundress did nothing to protect my legs from it tickling my calves and ankles.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith