tickled

Example Sentences

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We were tickled, then, to see another iteration of our favorite story appear in Politico amid Becerra’s rise: an anonymity-heavy piece quoting the politician’s former administration colleagues calling him a loser.

From Slate • May 9, 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

He was also tickled by the fact that “Frozen’s” Olaf not only exists in the reality of “Wonder Man,” but “for some reason, he is an icon in the dance clubs.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

"He went to open the curtain and the window was like really tiny, that really tickled me - it was like a prison cell," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

It always tickled my brain like a feather, but my true name, if I really had one, never surfaced all the way.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff