tingle
verb (used without object)
to have a sensation of slight prickles, stings, or tremors, as from cold, a sharp blow, excitement, etc..
tingler
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a word derived from
tingle.
Example Sentences
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Patrick designed the memorable fish man in the black-and-white, drive-in-ready, atomic-age tingler “Creature from the Black Lagoon.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
Instead, he had to settle for a race that Abbott called the "greatest spine tingler in Santa Anita history."
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2016
Last year, Common and John Legend’s performance of “Glory,” from “Selma,” was a spine tingler, but, as the Grammys’ Mr. Ehrlich noted, “very few hit songs come out of movies anymore.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2016
That spine tingler of a script is, with a certain amount of cinematic license, akin to sweet reality at the 55-acre Hollywood studios of venerable Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Gulf & Western.
From Time Magazine Archive
A tingler wasn't a lethal weapon, but it could have unpleasant effects if used carelessly or hastily.
From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Stacy Aumonier
