How To Use Tickler In A Sentence

A stickler for detail, Goring actually reads the fine print on all her bills and credit cards statements to make sure she isn't being overcharged.
In spite of her informality of manner, she was a stickler for correct attire. Times, Sunday Times
I can only imagine his knapsack is full of dildos and anal beads and ticklers and handcuffs and shit. INDIANA JONES DOMINATRIX PICTURES
There is the classic, carefully crafted shtick of the old-fashioned nightclub comedian, routines and rib-ticklers cast and recast into perfectly polished pearls of witticism.
His main job is penciling — creating the initial drawings, based on stories from writers, which are then finished by inkers — and he is known as a stickler for detail. Archie: American Idol

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The unpredictability of island life has made him a stickler for schedules.
He is always the first in to work and is a stickler for detail. The Sun
He is meeting the tickler successfully.
Like her copatriot counterparts Jose Gonzalez and Jens Lekman, Frida Hyvönen is a loner; a stripped-down ivory tickler, who maybe falls somewhere between our own Fiona Apple and Tori Amos. Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
The sport of golf is a stickler for abiding by the rules.
Please don't comment on a thread that is only vaguely related to the subject you want to talk about, however; I'm usually a stickler for keeping threads on-topic and you run the risk of your comment being deleted.
I hate to be a stickler, but I feel it is my duty to stickle, and I really just wanted to use the word "stickle"'cuz I just made it up, but anyway: Original copies.
I'm actually a stickler for the rules of the road and I always try really hard to drive at the speed limit in urban areas (although I get really annoyed with drivers who drive under the speed limit).
Cardenas, who bends over to pick up a piece of popcorn off the suite's carpeted floor, is also known as a stickler for cleanliness and a borderline perfectionist. Chicagotribune.com -
Mr. Ulrich, known as a stickler for detail, relied on its heritage of upscale merchandising and uncluttered aisles to make Target stand out. Target Promotes Steinhafel to CEO Post
He was a real stickler for detail and for the right details. The Sun
He's a stickler for detail/accuracy/efficiency.
A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour. Times, Sunday Times
food given by another person is only a throat tickler, but food gained by the labour of one's own hand is the food which satisfies.
There is no accepted coaching category called stickler or nitpicker. NYT > Home Page
I caught that too. jukebox is a real stickler and pedant when it suits him; but truly elastic when it comes to his own dishonest misstatements. The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional
As a stickler for law and order, I say: nonsense!
The response to tickling is still somewhat like a reflex (we laugh uncontrollably when tickled, struggle to escape the tickler, push away the tickling hand).
Rough and tough, Neale asked a lot and was a stickler for perfection.
a stickler for promptness
She interacts with them constantly and encouragingly but is a stickler for accuracy and not looking down. Times, Sunday Times
A stickler for perfection, she would inspect the cellars at night to make sure everything was right.
He was a stickler for defensive discipline and organisation, and it made us almost impenetrable. Times, Sunday Times
Harvard Law graduate who was known as a stickler for detail while a lawyer in private practice. Undefined
He is as gruff as a bulldog's bark, yet underneath the hoary rock 'n' roll bluster, Lemmy, author of songs such as ‘Die You Bastard,’ is curiously old fashioned and a stickler for good manners.
There is at present a buzz in the industry around Saju Kodiyan, who pulled off rib-ticklers in the television comedy strip, ‘Cinemala’.
The doctor was a stickler for quality as well as quantity; the memory of his claret and beccafico days still clung to him, like the scent of the roses to Tom Moore's broken gallipot: he was curious in condiments, and whilst devouring, grumbled at the unseasoned viands of Tahiti. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
Something of the same brassy colloquialism has evidently now burrowed its way onto our wall labels and into our catalogue entries, and would have refused to budge if a few of us had not learned to love our inner stickler, and accepted that there are certain limits to what one can definitely say about the original state of very old things. Well, they would, wouldn’t they?
Fournier is, perhaps because of his animus toward the Vice-President, no stickler for accuracy.
But the latter occur in profusion, too: pirootin ': Messing around; from "pirouetting." tickler: A flat pocket flask. favorance: Resemblance. gumshot: Slingshot. throddy: Well rounded; plump; chuffy. in the room of: In place of. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
I glumly consign a notebook packed full of rib-ticklers about bratwurst and square-headed men with no sense of humour to the bin.
The degree of ‘ticklishness' increases if the ‘ticklee’ feels that he or she cannot escape from the tickler.
When other mothers were carting their children around in what I saw as a desperate attempt to pretend nothing had changed in their lives, I was/am a stickler for the nap schedule.
A stickler for etiquette and social niceties, this is the sign more than any other that is likely to have nightmares over the phrasing of invitations!
A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour. Times, Sunday Times
Hate to be a stickler, you two, but the sabbath is actually Saturday, not Sunday. Think Progress » Rep. Steve King and Glenn Beck agree: Voting for health reform on Sunday is ‘an affront to God.’
'Every one o' them wrong things as you does seems to make out o 'the burk o' the airth a sap o 'its own as has got its own pertickler stare, but allus it's a hungry sap, Hal, an' a sap wi 'bloody fangs. Aylwin
Godard's not known for rib-ticklers, but Histoire is frequently funny.
He, the tickled one, is at least fine with being tickled since he understands the mental states of the tickler and believes the tickler has no intention to harm him.
Although we are not able to tickle ourselves unassisted, there is a way to trick the brain by using a robot tickler.
food given by another person is only a throat tickler, but food gained by the labour of one's own hand is the food which satisfies.
A stickler for classicism, he follows the traditional style in composing ghazals.
Bart asked her, if she was such a stickler, did she put bitters in her Manhattans.
Tickler File: A set of 43 folders, labeled 1 – 31 and January – December, used to remind us of tasks we need to do on a specific day.
Fluent in five languages, highly informed and a stickler for precise dates and details, she is equally at ease mothering me with biscuits, stuffing plant cuttings into my hands or scolding me for my dismal grasp of the Czech language.
The Rib Tickler is a pork or beef rib dinner for four, complete with side dishes.
Now the only stickler is that it just so happens she’s out of town on business this week and doesn’t know she’s switching. My wife is switching to Apple OS X, she just doesn’t know it yet! — Meandering Passage
I shook it, but could tell from the way her eyes twinkled that she was anything but a stickler for formality.
On the escaladder he told someone, "It's cruel to tie ticklers to slow-witted snaily humans when ticklers can think and live ... ten thousand times as fast," he finished, plucking the figure from the murk of his unconscious. The Creature from Cleveland Depths
They soon tumbled off the sofa, and changed positions, and Crystal became the tickler instead of Adrian.
They had one at the show as a pre-release tickler, as the vehicle will not be released here until late this year.
Negligent he may have been in his personal appearance and his domestic arrangements but he was also pragmatic, punctilious and a stickler for detail.
I sighed, said Mr Sinclair the butler was a stickler for inventories. THE TARTAN RINGERS
He has become something of a stickler for the finer observances of royal protocol.
How do you like this rib-tickler from Leckie, on why the SSP's manifesto went unbudgeted: ‘This isn't Countdown and I'm not Carol Vorderman.‘
The _chatouilleur_, or tickler, a variety of the genus _claqueur_, is in vogue chiefly at the smaller theatres. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
One earnest little girl, clearly a stickler for cleanliness, covered her playground with a variety of dustbins, all carefully labelled ‘Use me’.
That talented tickler of the ivories will present fans with a soothing concert of organ music on Saturday.
_ I ain't not a pertickler good speller myself, but I reely shoud be artily ashamed of sich a blunder as that. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891
A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour. Times, Sunday Times
The sad thing is that Tim could have found many more rib-ticklers, but being a man of iron will, he won't.
Diane Groomes was known as a stickler for the rules City Desk DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 24, 2010
Beneath his thick, bushy brows was a stickler's eye for detail. Times, Sunday Times
She was a stickler for formality and any transgression against the rules and regulations angered her.
This is admittedly a nonpersonal sense of 'infer', but the usage still infuriates language sticklers. Times, Sunday Times
Ever a stickler for protocol, he and his wife took umbrage at the democratic etiquette of President Thomas Jefferson's administration.
The main stickler is that by the end of the book, the reader is left without a sense of closure. REVIEW: Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds
Normally the tickler is someone who desires to express intimacy, emotion, and affection through their tickling - in other words the tickle is intended as a friendly gesture.
Their neo-vaudevillian, avant-garde crowd-pleaser is a tonic rib-tickler. Times, Sunday Times
Would Egypt's most successful general, a stickler for tradition, have wished to be associated with a woman co-regent, even a woman as strong as Hatshepsut?
After all, you were always such a stickler for accuracy.
She wondered if she should sign it to authenticate it, but Irving, never much of a stickler for authenticity, replied, apparently, ‘that she knew who drew it, and so did I, and that was good enough’.
He was also, however, a stickler for truth and accuracy, and this might have led to his death.
The Czech legend is a stickler for detail. The Sun
I can only imagine his knapsack is full of lube and anal beads and ticklers and handcuffs and shit. INDIANA JONES DOMINATRIX PICTURES
But that suggests something odd: for he is a stickler for the indissolubility of form and content, from the beginning to the end.
Mary is no stickler for grooming, and Daniels requested that Mo'Nique skip shaving her underarms and eat chips by the bagful to encourage facial blemishes. Women of 'Precious' undertake transformational roles
We don't know what Fred the boy was like - going by his later life the young Fred may have been a stickler for detail, very precise about his work, and perhaps not one of the ‘in’ crowd.
He was a stickler for details and loyalty and he was innovative. Times, Sunday Times
He used to interdooce 'em smooth ez ile athout sayin 'nothin' in pertickler an 'I misdoubt he didn't set so much by the sec'nd Ceres as wut he done by the Fust, fact, he let on onct thet his mine misgive him of a sort of fallin' off in spots. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
The book also tells one a lot about Herge, who was a stickler for accuracy and detail and how he ensured that each of the stories was firmly anchored in fact.
food given by another person is only a throat tickler, but food gained by the labour of one's own hand is the food which satisfies.
And the ivory tickler is planning a jazz gig dressed as the funky chicken at the Fulford Arms on Wednesday (chicks go free).
Anyone who believes the national stereotype of the Germans as humourless might like to ponder the following Teutonic rib-tickler: How did the Grand Canyon originate?
I am a stickler for details, and I always seem to need to know the reason behind things, the motivation that inspired certain actions, the purpose behind plans and course of actions, the meaning of it all.
He was a stickler for defensive discipline and organisation, and it made us almost impenetrable. Times, Sunday Times
In spite of her informality of manner, she was a stickler for correct attire. Times, Sunday Times
Well, Tommy was a terrible stickler, you know; he'd biff you as soon as look at you. DESPERADOES
‘Well, if you're as good a tickler as you are a soccer player, I say you've got it down,’ you say lightly.
The New Yorker wrote that the book presented itself as “a call to arms, in a world spinning rapidly into subliteracy, by a hip yet unapologetic curmudgeon, a stickler for the rules of writing” but the reviewer expressed the opinion that “it’s hard to fend off the suspicion that the whole thing might be a hoax”. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynn Truss vs. Ate, Shot and Left by David Crystal (English)
Dere didn ''pear ter be nuffin' pertickler de matter wid her, -- she had des grieve 'herse'f ter def fer her Sandy. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
He was a stickler for the correct usage of English.
He's a stickler for detail/accuracy/efficiency.
He is a stickler for detail. Times, Sunday Times
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Howard, no mean tickler of the ivories, was persuaded between courses to play a few tunes.
But Waugh is a stickler for the protocol of language, manners and tradition.
Not to mention that she's such a stickler that if she says a canned truffle is okay here-well, I'll just generally believe her. Toast and the Truffled Eggs
Well, Tommy was a terrible stickler, you know; he'd biff you as soon as look at you. DESPERADOES
He has become something of a stickler for the finer observances of royal protocol.
Not only do most people like tickling - ticklers as well as ticklees - most recognize it is a way to show affection.
He's a stickler for detail/accuracy/efficiency.
Beneath his thick, bushy brows was a stickler's eye for detail. Times, Sunday Times
Has playing the fastidious butler made him a stickler for service in restaurants? Times, Sunday Times
He was a stickler for discipline and the minutiae of dress. Times, Sunday Times
Sticklers for detail, father-son owners Pratt and Chris Morales sprinkle herbs and spices on the golden-brown loaf, and even substitute darker whole wheat flour for the "dark meat" wings and legs.
‘Oh, I was a stickler for the rules,’ she pshawed, ‘I work in a bar now.’
He was a stickler for standards, insisting that he did not want railway enthusiasts but enthusiastic railwaymen. Times, Sunday Times
I am a stickler for objectivity in journalism, but I had started out with the impression that I would be dealing with a world of half-truths, stretched laws and dodgy dealings.
The belly laughs provoked by that rib-tickler have put the entire main island of Japan on tsunami alert.
A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour. Times, Sunday Times
He proved an enthusiastic chorister and server in the parish churches, and was a stickler for the traditions of the Church of England.
As a stickler for detail, it is possible to imagine him marching out there with measuring tape. Times, Sunday Times
But it does mean that what is advertised and intended as an uproarious rib-tickler is really a far better light tragedy.
As rib-ticklers go, this was not exactly a classic.
If you are a stickler for quiet brakes, you can also cut out shim washers for spacing the brake caliper brake mounts on the frame or fork.
Anyhow, you gev me a proper sneezer, a most pertickler hahnsome socdolager, I vum! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
He told a story involving a commanding officer who was a stickler for precision, and whose great aim was to see the trombone players of the band with their elbows at the same angle.
I was a stickler for tradition, just like my dad.

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