How To Use Ticklish In A Sentence
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Again, kudos o'plenty are definitely in order for your discrete handling of a very ticklish situation.
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Jessi and Taylor and Luke are all just as ticklish!
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‘Yeah, but you're still as ticklish as you were then,’ I simply stated.
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‘You're ticklish,’ he exclaimed, seemingly proud of this discovery.
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Dale prodded at a ticklish spot on Tiffany's stomach with his fingers, which made her giggle.
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Remembering that morning, on the plane, when Cassie began to display her ticklishness, which passed for flirting in Cassie's world, she felt mildly disgusted.
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Of course ranges can be very quickly found by shooting one or two shots to find them out, and this was done by our guns a good deal, and necessarily so when in action when one has no time to waste and the objects are moving ones; but I strongly advise anyone who gets his guns into a position where he is likely to stop, such as in defence of a camp, or on top of a kopje defending a railway line, or in position to bombard an enemy's fixed trenches and lines, at once to find his ranges roughly all round to prominent objects by the mekometer, as it gives one added confidence and is invaluable when shooting over the heads of one's own men to cover their attack, which is often a ticklish job and to be successful must be continued up to the very last moment it can be, with safety.
With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service
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At first, there is a sensation of ticklishness.
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‘Ah ok’, he seemed satisfied with the answer, ‘are you ticklish?’
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Dalkin, executive director of the ABC, was a man in command when it came handling the potentially ticklish issue.
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It's a ticklish thing to think that a spark of fire any where about the place might ruin me, and to know at the same time that every man about the run and every swagsman that passes along have matches in their pocket.
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
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Being ticklish is very annoying, let me tell you.
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Normally he wouldn't have hesitated to go to his little brother for help, but this situation was a little ticklish, and he didn't think he could count on Joe not to start laughing.
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A canoe is a ticklish craft.
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So car makers are faced with the ticklish problem of how to project products at new buyers.
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The constant public childish bickering that had been going on between them ever since Matt had grown so irritable and ticklish some months ago could not have gone unnoticed.
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To the civilian mind, being sent forward purposely to draw the enemy's fire, looks like "ticklish" business.
Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros
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As his fingertips caress my sides, I giggle softly at the ticklish sensations.
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I always give up when someone tickles me because I am so ticklish.
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She says that companies like InfoSpace are now in a ticklish situation.
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Considering that road-widening is forever a ticklish issue in the State, what is the way out?
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She shivered beneath his touch, a reflex he almost mistook for ticklishness until she grasped his hand and pressed it beneath the lapel of her uniform, wanting him to repeat the caress.
Heaven Lake
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The tall woman just squirmed, being very ticklish.
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A ticklish moment was that these residencies were situated close to the President's personal apartments.
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She put her head so close that he felt her warmth, and a ticklish brush of hair.
THE OPEN DOOR
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However suspiciously we might regard cricket administrators, there is reason enough to believe that this change is a sincere and honest attempt at solving one of the most chronic and ticklish problems the game has faced.
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If you are ticklish and can't bear people touching your feet, you'd better skip this next bit.
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If the letters were truly on the knuckles, that would assure the win...but I understand how 'ticklish' that could be.
This Just In: Plugs and Deliberations
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My wife is very ticklish, especially around the neck.
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She had heard somewhere that ticklishness made girls more appealing.
Labor Policy
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Then he looks up at me, slyly, from under his eyebrows and I note sleek lashes, ticklish and fine.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Gunson confessed were "ticklish," as he called it, and where he always paused in his firm, quiet way to offer me his help.
To The West
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In cases such as yours," they began, "let's speak frankly, in cases of ... amputation, it is not uncommon to encounter the selfsame itches, burns, ticklishness shooting as before from the direction of the ... amputee.
Bradley Burston: A Place at the Passover Table - for Pharoah
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Johnson now has some ticklish decisions to make in all three rows of the scrum, Tim Payne, the incumbent loosehead prop, having fared so badly against Northampton on Sunday that he was withdrawn at half-time.
Jonny Wilkinson's injury brings England call-up for Charlie Hodgson
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I am ticklish and any contact could make me laugh.
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This massage method is not recommended for anyone who is very ticklish.
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We only feel ticklish if we detect a sense of invasion or attack.
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Her hair is clasped in an imperfect bun, her impatience with its ticklish irritation apparent.
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Yes – there!" said Nancy, holding up Ellen's bare feet on one hand, while the fingers of the other secretly applied in ticklish fashion to the soles of them caused Ellen suddenly to start and scream.
The Wide, Wide World
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She was extremely ticklish and it was absolutely hysterical watching her freak out.
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Parental fitness is a ticklish subject in the assisted-fertility community.
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So car makers are faced with the ticklish problem of how to project products at new buyers.
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We only feel ticklish if we detect a sense of invasion or attack.
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‘In terms of the allegations, this is a very ticklish situation, and what we are trying to do is get all the available opinions, including some legal advice,’ he said.
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So car makers are faced with the ticklish problem of how to project products at new buyers.
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Smirking, he said, ‘Well, you may know when I'm lying, Alice, but I know that you happen to be amazingly ticklish.’
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The candlestick is the dream _motif_, always a ticklish business to handle, and in this particular case -- well, no, I won't be such a spoil-sport as to go into that, for the chief pleasure of this kind of an entertainment is the succession of pleasant unexpected shocks which are deftly administered to the audience by the author.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916
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She snatched her arm back for fear that she would burst into a laughing spell from ticklishness.
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I followed, almost unaware of the ticklishness of the exploit to a tyro, so buoyed up was I by her example and by my scorn of the weaklings for'ard.
CHAPTER XXXIV
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But soon during her lecture she had to face a ticklish question posed by the girls.
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And I was really ticklish when I was a kid (still am for that matter, but only on the back and not all the time), and my cousins used to trap me at Empire Bay and tickle me unmercifully.
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He knew how ticklish I was and he loved to torment me like that.
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She put her head so close that he felt her warmth, and a ticklish brush of hair.
THE OPEN DOOR
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‘I forgot how ticklish you are,’ he laughed devilishly.
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I then realised that my ticklishness could prove to be a problem.
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Like all little girls, she was very "ticklish," and when he dallied with his fingers about her plump neck, she dropped to the ground and kicked and rolled over to get away from him.
The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl
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hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter
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On the "ticklish" setting of this everything depends.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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But that creates the ticklish media management problem of whether to say that the new versions are tougher (because that implies the older ones were soft).
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Ben eased his body against hers, patiently working past her ticklishness.
Parents Behaving Badly
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Particularly ‘ticklish’ individuals wriggle and writhe in apparent agony, as well as laughing hysterically, when being tickled.
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In addition, there is the ticklish problem of reparations.
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You can, if you make up your mind to it, prevent yourself from either wriggling, pulling your foot away, or giggling, when the sole of your foot is tickled; but if you happen to be at all "ticklish," it will take all the determination you have to do it, and some children are utterly unable to resist this impulse to squirm when tickled.
A Handbook of Health
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I'm ticklish too, and I know how annoying it is when people take advantage of it.
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The theatre's always been a bit of a ticklish subject with me.
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As for Spain, she was hard pressed; French and American emissaries had stirred up strife in her colonies; and affairs were most "ticklish" in San Domingo.
William Pitt and the Great War
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He chuckled, unable to disguise the fact that he was ticklish.
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McNamara explained that the defoliants would be used initially in road clearing because the chemicals presented a "ticklish" problem and road clearance offered the least potential trouble.
Operation Ranch Hand
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That reaction demonstrates the ticklish situation the press finds itself in during wartime, when the interaction between press and government comes into stark relief.
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Groom these ticklish areas with a stable rubber, tea cloth or your hand and work at it gently.
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On the subject of ID cards: it seems that the majority of people to whom I have spoken on this ticklish subject do not want to be controlled.
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‘Riley's very ticklish,’ Jack told the rest of them.
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Once Marie has rubbed my feet vigorously in order to battle my chronic ticklishness, she spends an hour painstakingly applying pressure to every minute area with the edge of her thumb.
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At least he doesn't know where I'm most ticklish.
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The source of irritation may be flies, an unpleasant smell, ticklish grooming or an unskilled rider.
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The second question is more ticklish because it is anchored in politics.
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On another level, in my job, some very strange situations arise - including some very ticklish ethical dilemmas.
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He was just as ticklish as me so it was easy to get him.
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A pillion is a sort of a very low-backed arm-chair, and was fastened on the horse's croup, behind the saddle, on which a man rode who had all the care of managing the horse, while the lady sat at her ease, supporting herself by grasping a belt which he wore, or passing her arm around his body, if the _gentleman was not too ticklish_.
The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses
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It’s a ticklish thing to think that a spark of fire any where about the place might ruin me, and to know at the same time that every man about the run and every swagsman that passes along have matches in their pocket.
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
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In the case of the Philippines when you talk about population, it's a ticklish issue, as you know, it's a controversial issue.
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It does leave race-goers here facing a potentially ticklish problem, however.
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The ticklishness is a response to being touched in a certain way by another person.
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
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Perhaps most of them would have been willing to acknowledge that it was rather "ticklish" business to lay out on a topsail yard at midnight in a gale of wind; and if their anxious mothers could have seen the boys at that moment, some of them might have fainted, and all wished them in a safer place.
Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat
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Boston rowdies mob an English intermeddler with the ticklish matters of our national policy, and English rowdies mob an Austrian
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
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By the time half our company was overboard, the boat had a reasonably high freeboard and was less ticklish to handle in the gusts.
Chapter 19
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I haven't mentioned it before, but I am very ticklish.
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It was also important, he said, that the ticklish issue of who stages the opening ceremony and the final be settled by the end of the year.
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Groom these ticklish areas with a stable rubber, tea cloth or your hand and work at it gently.
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The degree of ‘ticklishness' increases if the ‘ticklee’ feels that he or she cannot escape from the tickler.
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I jumped quite a bit; I don't think he realized how ticklish I am.
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Then he looks up at me, slyly, from under his eyebrows and I note sleek lashes, ticklish and fine.
A MEANS TO EVIL