Example Sentences

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The President, who can be tired and cranky after an overseas foray, basked in the adulation, grinning, doling out 360-degree waves and giving his full-body chuckle as if someone were tickling him.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were tickling her a lot at this point.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

It was almost as if someone were tickling me.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

The Weasley twins and Lee Jordan were tickling the tentacles of a giant squid, which was basking in the warm shallows.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

Why, there’s one o’ the gang along with me as allus seems as if you were tickling him.

From Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land by Groome, William H. C.