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Example sentences for "tickling"

Lexicographically close words:
tickings; tickle; tickled; tickler; tickles; ticklish; ticks; ticky; tico; ticos
  1. Then Charlie came back and began lightly tickling your buttocks with his birch twigs, presently giving one or two smart little cuts which made you wince.

  2. I thought how pretty your hands are--and what they are like to touch--and I thought it was a new experience to feel somebody's hair tickling my cheek.

  3. He had put his cap under his head to stop the tickling of the hay, and he lay half curled up, sleeping soundly.

  4. She pushed the tickling hair from her face with her arm, and looked at me with tranquil pleasure, as she worked the paste in the yellow bowl.

  5. Self-tickling rarely causes laughter for the reason that auto-tickling can cause only a known degree of stimulation, so that there results no excessive integration which requires relief by the neutral muscular activity of laughter.

  6. The response to tickling in these regions is actively and obviously self-defensive.

  7. His mouth is usually dry, the digestive processes are at a low ebb, the aroma of food causes no secretion of saliva, tickling the nose causes no sneezing; he catches no cold.

  8. If deep tickling of the ribs is known to be malicious, it will excite physical resentment and not laughter.

  9. In this connection it is of interest to note that a superficial, insect-like contact with the skin rarely provokes laughter, and that the tickling of the nasal, oral, and pulmonary tracts does not produce laughter.

  10. If the sole of the foot be repeatedly bruised or crushed by a stone, shock may be produced; if the stone be only lightly applied, then the consequent sensation of tickling causes a discharge of nervous energy.

  11. They are good only for tickling a horse and to make him restive.

  12. Some are only able to urge on their steed by constantly tickling his flanks without wounding him.

  13. The colt is trained to it by tickling him on the coronet, pinching him on the legs, and forcing him to bend the knee.

  14. It may be tickling gear: for it plays with my nose already.

  15. Nay, by the mass, we had tickling cheer, Sybil; and how the plague dost thou and Mistress Rose and my lord mayor?

  16. And the most strange feeling came on him, as of the flowers falling again all over his face and neck and hands, the tickling of their soft-fringed edges, the stinging sweetness of their scent.

  17. He seemed to feel that hair tickling his skin; it used to be the greatest comfort he had known since her mother died.

  18. Mrs. Petty became aware of something tickling her left ear, and turning round, found her master leaning out beside her, in his dressing-gown.

  19. Was it spring tickling her senses--whipping up nostalgia for her 'clown,' against all wisdom and outraged virtue?

  20. The umpire, a small boy of twelve, was lying on his stomach, squealing and tickling a collie.

  21. Soreness, dryness, and tickling first call attention to the trouble, together with a feeling of chilliness and, perhaps, slight fever.

  22. Hoarseness is the first symptom noticed, and perhaps slight chilliness, together with a prickling or tickling sensation in the throat.

  23. I exclaimed when I felt the hair surmounting his pubes tickling my bottom, and I wiggled myself from side to side on his splendid staff.

  24. The man's tongue had penetrated into her lustful cavity, while she had his engine in her mouth, at the same time tickling his testicles with her fingers.

  25. In his hand was a birch--with which he was gently tickling the lovely girl's bottom.

  26. So saying, she took his member in her mouth and rolled her tongue over it, at the same time tickling his testicles.

  27. He played with me for some minutes, titillating the interior of my vagina with his finger, pressing my thighs and tickling my bottom.

  28. Gretel is the first to wake, and rouses Hansel by tickling him with a leaf, at the same time singing a veritable tickling melody, and then telling him what she has seen in her dream.

  29. You can't think how they fidget one, tickling and creeping all day long!

  30. Quite early in the morning I felt a difference--a dryness about the skin, and a tickling at the roots of my feathers, which I knew was not caused by those little creepers I told you of.

  31. She told the ladies, as they came out from breakfast, that she was ever so much better generally, but that she seemed to have more of that tickling in her throat.

  32. Mrs. Pomeroy suffers from the same tickling cough as I do, after drinking tea, and had gone to her own room.

  33. There was a great deal of tobacco, which at once set up my tickling cough.

  34. In both victims the poison-fangs are absolutely lifeless: tickling with a bit of straw never once succeeds in making them open.

  35. The cold weather comes and tickling no longer elicits these signs of life.

  36. Just then he experienced a tickling sensation in his throat, and something ran out of his mouth and jumped into the wine.

  37. By dint of tickling it was roused at last, and then it fell upon its adversary with such fury, that in a moment the young fellow's cricket would have been killed outright had not its master interfered and stopped the fight.

  38. I go for a bit of a walk in one direction, and begin picking something, and feel a tickling about the back.

  39. Some one's eyes on me,' I says to myself, and I go a bit farther, and feel the same tickling in front.

  40. A palace eunuch, tickling my neck with a feather from behind, gave me my start.

  41. What could old Johannes Maartens do, with a bevy of laughing girls about him, tweaking his nose, pinching his arms, tickling his ribs till he pranced?

  42. Instinctively, without reckoning the consequences of what she was doing, she came out with the charges that had been tickling her tongue for years!

  43. Dolores, reserved and on her dignity, kept biting her lip as though she were trying to repress a laugh that was tickling at her palate.

  44. When the Rector came to his senses again, he found himself lying on his back, and something warm and tickling was running over his cheeks, like a soft wriggling snake.

  45. They are but tickling to this: I have been all my life a-gathering what I must now lose in a moment.

  46. But just as clever cooks infuse bitter sauces and sharp seasoning to prevent sweet things from cloying, so these flatterers do not use a genuine or serviceable freedom of speech, but merely a winking and tickling innuendo.

  47. For not a woman only, but young child Tickling the bristly boar with tender hand, Will lay him prostrate sooner than an athlete.

  48. Closely related to touch is the sensation of tickling or itching.

  49. The officer in question suffered at times from a tickling in his face, which annoyed him very much; it seemed to be more on the cheeks than in the corners behind the nostrils.

  50. The tickling of the face is the result of a more or less vain attempt to reach the ear or eye.

  51. A much younger man, a captain in the Indian army, who had attended many spiritist seances, suffered much the same sort of tickling annoyance.

  52. No matter; that was one of the nerve-tickling details of the newspaper steamship hunt.

  53. The sleep was sound, but the animal was easily awakened by tickling its ear.

  54. The servants declared that they could only put an end to his paroxysms either by tickling him on the soles of his feet, or by blowing a trumpet in his ears.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tickling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.