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

It's going to affect your nose and the back of your throat, while some will get a tickling at the back of the mouth.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

“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

But in the meantime, mother chimps continue to be their offspring's primary playmate, tickling, chasing, playing 'airplane'.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024

“I didn’t think I would ever fall in love with anybody, much less have them marry me,” Caroline said, her fingernails tickling the back of Ma’s neck.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat