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tingle

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verb

as in to jingle
to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound awoke to the steady pitter-patter of raindrops tingling on the rooftop

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of tingle
Noun
The world's largest slithering snake is sure to send a tingle down your spine. Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2024 Unlike other plumpers, this one leaves a slight tingle rather than an overbearing burning sensation- thank goodness! Taylor Lane, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
Covid-19 wreaked havoc on my body, from my head, where visible bald patches were once a reminder of where my hair fell out in large clumps, to my toes, which tingle, burn, and go numb from neuropathy. Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2025 Symptoms can involve pain or tingling in the mid-back.3 Lumbar Foraminal Stenosis Your lumbar spine is the lower part of your spine. Jennifer Steinhoff, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tingle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tingle
Noun
  • The pandemic unearthed a collective ache that had long been buried beneath deadlines, distractions, and digital noise.
    Devi Brown, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Because over-the-counter pain relievers are so readily available, people often forget that pills aren't the only option when suffering from minor aches and pains, Pasricha says.
    Andee Tagle, NPR, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Men dressed as 1880s gunfighters are forever clomping up and down wooden sidewalks with jingling spurs and holstered revolvers on their belts.
    Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The first half of the instrumental sounds like wind chimes jingling around in a storm.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Having to walk past those luxurious, roomy, and comfortable-looking lie-flat beds in business-class on your way to economy is enough to trigger a pang of jealousy.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2025
  • As the time of iftar, the breaking of the fast, nears, a day’s worth of hunger pangs combine with jockeying among patrons desperate to get their marook loaves and rush home before the call to prayer sounds from mosque minarets.
    Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Sure, Italians look darn elegant and effortless sipping a spritz, but that cigar ring clinking the glass is purposefully chosen and those sunglasses (likely bought at the local ottica) weren’t just a quick find at a gas station.
    Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Kendall Jenner clinks glasses with Billy Dec at the Blueprint Underground Cocktail Club in Nashville, Tennessee on March 13.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Gary is a professor who works undercover stings for the police as a fake hitman-for-hire.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Because after all the highs of this compelling season for Aston Villa, there have been more than enough late stings to make the latest feel eerily familiar.
    Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Shaking the capsules produces audio signals that range from rattling stones, over tinkling coins to swooshing sand.
    Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Jeff Goldblum tinkled the ivories during a moving In Memoriam section at the BAFTA Film Awards.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Antivirals: Ear pain related to viruses may require antiviral medications.
    Mark Gurarie, Health, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Perhaps Vrabel values the toughness Hill showed in playing through pain.
    Chad Graff, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The move has rattled economists, manufacturers, and security experts.
    Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Trump’s evolving tariff policies and economic war with China continue to rattle investors and businesses.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Tingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tingle. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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