Example Sentences

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Right now, in a high-security research lab at Northwestern University’s Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, scientists are tickling rats.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2014

As rap music goes mainstream and movies by black directors like Spike Lee and John Singleton become mass-audience hits, African-American cartoonists are tickling the public fancy in newspapers across the country.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Oh," she exclaimed with a laugh, "it's your rabbits that are tickling me."

From The Fat and the Thin by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

The Minister awoke with a start and exclaimed: "Leave off, Sophie, you are tickling me!"

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor