Example Sentences

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He finally fell in the third to last over of the day when the third umpire judged he had tickled a catch down the leg side off part-time leg-spinner Dan Lawrence.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2022

With a cricket bat Pudsey's boy had tickled sporting Britain into a grin that stretched from Land's End to John o' Groat's.

From Time Magazine Archive

More technocrat than autocrat by instinct, he shunned the accolades and personality cult that had tickled the vanity of his predecessor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The idea that had tickled and tugged in her mind since Mark’s mom first called was alive and in her room with her.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

It was Nicknack's whiskers that had tickled Jan on the back of her neck.

From The Curlytops on Star Island or Camping out with Grandpa by Greene, Julia