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
Seasons go by without one, and there have been seven lean years since the last dandy scalp tingler, Sleuth.
From Time Magazine Archive
But even delicate hands were capable of leveling a tingler.
From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Stacy Aumonier
