tickle

Example Sentences

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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

Or that night we stumbled onto a giant controlled burn and saw the flames reach up and tickle the moon and recognized the gnawing feeling that fire is something we can only feign to control.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 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

They sway slightly in the breeze, and I can almost feel the tickle of it on my face.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy