tingle
verb (used without object)
to have a sensation of slight prickles, stings, or tremors, as from cold, a sharp blow, excitement, etc..
have tingled
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present perfectof tingle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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This was a sensation romance, or the roots of his hair would not have tingled so!
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson
I have tingled with shame at the way in which she spoke of and to him.
From The Sign of the Red Cross by Evelyn Everett-Green
Each spine must have tingled in anticipation of a shower of arrows.
From Brood of the Dark Moon by Charles Willard Diffin
A century ago he might have left his plough to fight, and, having fought, might have returned thereto; but the battle would have tingled in his blood and the furrows have gone crooked.
From The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
She was full of your praises and, as I was equally so, your ears ought to have tingled while we were together.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend
