TICKLE in a Sentence

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For TICKLE, below is one of 34 sentences:
The farmer did not wish to sell his fine colt, but when the horse dealer tickled his palm with a few hundred dollars, he consented.

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 Meanings and Examples of TICKLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tickle
 v.  touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
 n.  the act of tickling
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  Your grandmother's snake-cane wouldn't more than tickle him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
2  Sam tumbled up accordingly, dexterously contriving to tickle Andy as he did so, which occasioned Andy to split out into a laugh, greatly to Haley's indignation, who made a cut at him with his riding-whip.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In III
4  With old gentlemen, a girl was pert and saucy and almost, but not quite, flirtatious, so that the old fools' vanities would be tickled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  He was kissing her now and his mustache tickled her mouth, kissing her with slow, hot lips that were so leisurely as though he had the whole night before him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  Yet other mornings she was torn rudely out of deep slumber when he snatched all the bed covers from her and tickled her bare feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
7  I suppose I'd be tickled to death if I was invited to sit in with that gang.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  It was a brown post, stout and agreeable; the smooth leg of it held the sunlight, while its neck, grooved by hitching-straps, tickled one's fingers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  She giggled and bounced when Cy tickled her ear in village love.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  Well, of course, I'll be tickled to death to sell out my practise and go anywhere you say.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  The landlord chuckled again with his lean chuckle, and seemed to be mightily tickled at something beyond my comprehension.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
12  I will bet something now," said Stubb, "that somewhere hereabouts are some of those drugged whales we tickled the other day.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
13  They tickled each other and tossed and tumbled in the hay; and then, all at once, as if they had been shot, they were still.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
14  Remember how tickled he used to be, cause she would keep a fallin over, when she sot out to walk.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
15  The idea tickled Gregson so much that he laughed until he choked.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Example Sentence:
1  The farmer did not wish to sell his fine colt, but when the horse dealer tickled his palm with a few hundred dollars, he consented.
2  I was tickled to discover that we'd both done the same thing.
3  When I licked the sponge holes on the base of her anterior skull plate, it was the translator hanging on her chest that said, "Stop that tickles".