tickler

Example Sentences

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When I first discovered this taste-bud tickler — back in the height of quarantine — there was often a wait for a new batch to drop.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

She added a collar around the grinds, fluffed them with something that looks like a mini scalp tickler, and pressed them down with a tiny plunger.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2023

It’s the sort of tickler she so often misses, but this time she guides it into the centre of the cup, and the second match is all-square again.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2021

Then there’s Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins - no tickler he.

From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2018

You can tell whether or not it is going if you suddenly increase or decrease the coupling between the tickler coil and the input circuit of the audion.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John