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’s about 1 year old and he’s on the couch with my grandma, and my grandma was making fun of him, maybe tickling him or something, I don’t remember exactly.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 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

Alyce gave him a hug and a smack and felt that tickling in her throat and stinging in her eyes that meant she might cry again, now she knew how to do it.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman