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

I see where a spaceship out beyond the orbit of Mars was holed by a tickler.

From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Leiber, Fritz