Sentence examples for tickle from inspiring English sources

'tickle' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb meaning to lightly touch someone or something in a way that causes a feeling of tickling or pleasure, or as a noun meaning an act of lightly touching someone or something in a way that causes a feeling of tickling or pleasure. Example Sentence: She giggled when her dad tickled her under her chin.

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tickle

verb

To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter and the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingling or titillation.

  • He tickled Nancy's tummy, and she started to giggle.

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Krazy Kesh aptly summed up the humour of the books: "This book will tickle your funny bone till you will not be able to keep a straight face for days on end".

Josh had to watch a porn film, then say "Come here, boy!" and tickle his stomach.

This proposal makes those changes look like a tickle with a feather.

Mature tissues such as dentine contain stem cells of more limited capability, which keep up a supply of new specialised cells to replace old ones as they die.Dr Mooney's trick is to tickle dentine's stem cells in a way that encourages them to proliferate and produce more dentine.

"A culture forged in the ancient East that developed in the modern West, and a theology founded in divine election whose adherents have been targeted for genocide such incongruities tickle the modern Jewish imagination," explains Ms Wisse.

Many parties have enlisted the support of soap-opera stars, swimsuit models and similar attractions to tickle voters' interest.Behind the razzmatazz of the election, a bit more is at stake than how well Jokowi's party fares.

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Of course, there are "those" sorts of saunas – open late in backstreets – but surely we've all been to enough gyms and spas for a post-workout muscle relax, in a no-hint-of-slap-and-tickle environment, to overcome the giggly reactions?

If you're a canny shopper, you're probably beating the crowds even as I type, snapping up this year's Tickle-Me Elmo doll.

"We welcome higher prices, because they are an added incentive for farmers to produce what we need," says Robin Tickle, a Nestlé spokesman.

As 78-year-old Phyllis Tickle, author of several books on emergent Christianity, put it, "We're at the start of a 500-year upheaval in culture and the church .Most evangelicals do not view the emergents so kindly.

She has also written several children's books: Gullband (1974), a series of poems; Hag's Head (1980), a Halloween story; Kestrel and Leonardo (1991); Dreams More Real Than Bathtubs (1998); and Kiss, Tickle, Cuddle Hug (2012).

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