tickled

Example Sentences

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Instead of having its belly tickled and rolling over, Aronimink bit back on day one of the season's second major.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

At last year’s staging of “A Streetcar Named Desire” with Paul Mescal, theatergoers were positively tickled as Blanche DuBois spiraled.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

“I’m tickled that I could do something like that for someone.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2026

Yet we can’t help but be tickled by her initial message.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2026

“The Major’s got a friend, I’ve got a name, happy campers each and every, tickled pink, over the moon, five hops forward, no hops back, if you get my meaning.”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el