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ticklish

How to use ticklish in a sentence

I ran my thumb across my sole and felt a jolting, ticklish sensation I later learned meant I had nerve damage.

Here am I, trying to get you out of a mighty ticklish situation, and you go and get funny.

He knows a lot of useful stuff, and these are ticklish times.'

He settled back on his haunches and gave a little thought to the matter, and understood that he had a ticklish job ahead of him.

It was a ticklish business recovering the sledge which hung suspended in the crevasse.

It164 would have been a ticklish business to make one's way along the deck then, he thought.

I have been in many ticklish places, but I never got into one where I was worse stumped than I was that night.

"Bread sauce is so ticklish; a simmer too much and it's clean done for," Mrs. Baker said with a voice of great solicitude.

ORLEY FARMANTHONY TROLLOPE

Browning says that it is a ticklish matter to play with souls, but Lady Ellington did not stand convicted over this.

If there was the least suspicion of a sea over the reef it was indeed a ticklish task landing or embarking stores and men.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985