tickling

Example Sentences

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Tickling the lines, Tiafoe fired an ace to close out the third set and gestured to the crowd for more cheers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2022

Tickling is also linked to our ability to laugh, play, and feel good, notes Shimpei Ishiyama, a neuroscientist at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 10, 2016

Tickling the ivories is a lifelong passion for Priebus and he has been doing it "more than usual" lately, he told Reuters in an interview last week.

From Reuters • Apr. 24, 2016

It’s a social dance: Tickling is the way we and the chimps establish, without words, that we’re in this thing together.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2012

Lockhart shouted in alarm over the heads of the battling crowd, as Malfoy sank to his knees; Harry had hit him with a Tickling Charm, and he could barely move for laughing.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling