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

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

From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2018

There was a tickler on the hockey rink.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2018

You wouldn't think he could top that but, as an encore, he fell off his own roof at Lower Loxley, a guaranteed rib tickler first performed by Rod Hull while trying to retrieve his emu.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2011

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