How to Use ticklish in a Sentence

ticklish

adjective

• My feet are very ticklish.
• Truth is, the one area that's often ignored is the roof of his mouth, which is one of the most ticklish parts of the body, says Hess.
  — Judy Dutton, Redbook, 20 Jan. 2018
• This study is not the first to tickle rats, by the way: Jaak Panksepp and Jeffrey Burgdorf discovered that rats were ticklish back in 2000.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2016
• This study is not the first to tickle rats, by the way: Jaak Panksepp and Jeffrey Burgdorf discovered that rats were ticklish back in 2000.
  — National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2016
• There will be scads of ticklish budget issues to contend with—and so many more useful lessons to be learned.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• The researchers, who worked with young male rats (the most ticklish group), first wanted to confirm the previous findings.
  — Catherine Caruso, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2016
• While a good portion of this year’s ballot is straightforward, there are three ticklish spots.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 27 Jan. 2022
• Bright eyes, cheeks that glow,Chubby fingers, ticklish toes,A playful grin, a perfect nose,Very special hair and clothes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
• That’s the likeliest candidate for the naming now, but there’s a ticklish problem.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• Harry’s plan puts Charles in a ticklish spot faced by many parents, albeit on a much smaller financial scale.
  — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
• But even today’s AI may raise ticklish legal questions.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• The truth about smell seems to ambush and retreat, materialize and dissipate, like lilacs on a ticklish June breeze, or the ghost of yesterday’s stir-fry.
  — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
• But the issue is ticklish: A lot of people, Mr. Bell says in introductory voiceover, were asked to participate in his four-part project.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
• Is this because the queen is extremely ticklish and prone to hysterical giggling fits?
  — Jessica Pan, The Cut, 17 May 2018
• Some anglers also found to their chagrin that those multiple hooks stuck in hands and legs just as quickly as in bass—unhooking an A-rig fish was ticklish business.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 29 Sep. 2019
• Talking candidly about how to collect the revenues that fund government is more ticklish, especially when the pain is likely to be broadly shared.
  — The Economist, 7 Apr. 2018
• That is a more ticklish argument: the obstruction laws are complicated and the ambit of presidential power vast.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• This was a ticklish operation involving raising hundreds of millions of dollars, persuading the British to allow food ships to penetrate their blockade of the North Sea and the Germans not to commandeer the rations.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• Anyone who has willed themselves to not feel a tickle as ticklish can appreciate the difference between stimulation and our perception of it.
  — Austin Frakt, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2019
• The orchestra accomplished the most ticklish passages by trading off phrases within sections, spurred itself to a sprint for the finish line — and had enough energy for a Piazzolla encore.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• Many mammal species are sensitive to the light, ticklish annoyance of an insect crawling across their skin, but fewer respond to gargalesis—intense, laughter-inducing tickling.
  — Catherine Caruso, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2016
• The subject has been ticklish for Harris, who as San Francisco district attorney declined to seek a death sentence for a man charged with killing a police officer, keeping a campaign promise while taking political heat.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2019
• Disclosing sensitive issues regarding lawsuits can be very ticklish for a board or manager.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2022
• And as often happens, President Donald Trump has made the political fallout for Republicans ever more ticklish.
  — Alan Fram, Star Tribune, 22 Aug. 2020
• With prominent ex-players seeming to rally around the candidacy of pitching coach Nate Yeskie, this is turning into a ticklish situation for athletic director Scott Barnes.
  — oregonlive.com, 6 June 2019
• But syndications also posed a ticklish internal situation for the Alliance.
  — Peter Elkind, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2017

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