tickle

Example Sentences

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Then she shares a delightful, fact-based piece of trivia like, “Hey, did you know that rats giggle when you tickle them?”

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

A whiff of lemongrass and wet soil tickle the nose in Palli Fleischer Lyberth's vertical farm in Sisimiut, the second-largest town in the Danish autonomous territory.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

Which will give a lot of old parochial-school kids a tickle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

By that point, Atkinson had forced Travis Head to chop on, Tongue was beneficiary of a leg-side tickle by Jake Weatherald and the same bowler found the edge of Marnus Labuschagne.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

“You can tickle him behind the ears if you like. He's very sleepy at the moment, so he won't bite.”

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke