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How to use tingle in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Tingle means to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation. Example: “My hands were tingling from the cold.”

Examples of tingle by meaning

verbTo feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

  • My hands were tingling from the cold.
  • I got hit in the butt yesterday, and it still tingles.
  • Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC

verbTo feel an ASMR response.

  • This made me tingle

verbTo cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

  • Tingle your tastebuds with these exotic dishes.

verbTo ring; to tinkle or twang.

  • The wind-chime tingling of halyards slapping against masts, the constant creaking of wooden boats, the gurgling of water passing under the hull.1991, Michael L. Frankel, Sabra Crossing: An Ecological Adventure in the North Atlantic
  • They delightfully ring to greet the rising sun and still tingle during the darkest night.2010, Joseph J. Mazzella, Walking the Path of Love, page 223
  • At that precise moment, after a week of silence, the solar chime forcefully tingled, loudly and clearly, again and again.2021, Benita Glickman, Then and Now: Snapshots of My Life

nounA tingling sound; a chime or tinkle.

  • Their every chime, ring, and tingle sings with joy and makes wonderful music as they dance with the swirling winds of nature.2010, Joseph J. Mazzella, Walking the Path of Love, page 223
  • The tingle of a wind chime drifted to her on the ocean breeze.2014, Ally Blake, Marriage Make-Over
  • The tingle of bells is crisp, cutting the Tibetan air with a clarity that feels like blue porcelain cracking against the endless chime of bells.2017, Laurence Brahm, Searching for Shangri-La, page 52

nounA nail of the very smallest size; a tack.

  • Figs. 16, 17, 18 show method of forming a double welt, notice the copper tack or tingle to same as further security.1910, Samuel Barlow Bennett, A Manual of Technical Plumbing and Sanitary Science, page 206
  • Tingle the middle down by placing a tingle at the toe, and a couple at the joints.2016, A Classic Guide to Making and Repairing Vintage Shoes and Boots

nounA patch that covers a hole in something that needs to be watertight, such as a roof or a boat.

  • If damage is localised then you may easily tingle it over and a perfectly good sound job may be made with a tingle.1956, World Fishing - Volume 5, page 54
  • The appearance of this basically unattractive repair can be marginally improved by making the tingle larger than is structurally necessary and then give it long chamfers to fair it in.1984, David Derrick, Boat Maintenance, page 35
  • Nail the tingle to the sheathing between the two slates below the one being fixed .1992, Derek Bradford, Key Porter Books, Mike Lawrence, The Complete Home Renovation Manual, page 54

nounAn attachment in the middle of a long guide line to keep it from sagging.

  • The tingle is fastened on the top of the brick by a small pat of mortar, on which is placed a piece of brick to keep the tingle firm.1915 February, “British Method of Laying Bricks”, in Building Age, volume 37, page 68
  • a tingle is used to prevent the line from sagging in the middle if it is being used on a long wall1983, W. G. Nash, Brickwork - Volume 1, page 76
  • To prevent a long line sagging, it can be given intermediate support with a tingle plate.2013, Michael Hammett, Brickwork and Paving: For House and Garden

More sentences with tingle

  • B. also told her she felt a tingling in her face.2019 January 28, Lavanya Ramanathan, “Lifestyle guru B. Smith has Alzheimer’s. Her husband has a girlfriend. Her fans aren’t having it.”…. From the entry WebMD
  • A matted beard tingled from his shin and grapevined all over the exposed parts of his body.2017, Aben Kandel, City for Conquest. From the entry grapevine
  • Pull up the left-hand corner in the same way, and fasten down with a tingle.2016, A Classic Guide to Making and Repairing Vintage Shoes and Boots. From the entry fasten down
  • Next pull up the right-hand corner, and again fasten down with a tingle.2016, A Classic Guide to Making and Repairing Vintage Shoes and Boots. From the entry fasten down
  • Szechuan peppercorns evoke a tingling, numbing sensation produced by its active ingredient, alpha-sanshool.2015, David J. Linden, Touch: The Science of the Sense that Makes us Human, Penguin Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 232–233. From the entry Szechuan pepper
  • A sense of foreboding, almost like a Spidey-sense, tingled at the back of my neck.2010, Tate Hallaway [pseudonym; Lyda Morehouse], Honeymoon of the Dead, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN. From the entry spidey-sense
  • Stimulating forces tingled more intensely from the lower underpull of gravity.2009, Robert Klardon, Gravityball, page 149. From the entry underpull
  • Hope you both recover quickly (that back and tingling arm ought to go to a chiropracteur!!).2007 July 5, Elaine Jones, “What will they nick next?!!”, in uk.business.agriculture (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022. From the entry chiropracteur
  • We now have enough varieties to keep our tongues tingling into the next millennium.2006, David L. Sloan, Christopher Shultz, The Hangover Survival Guide, page 97. From the entry curryless
  • Care to let the rest of the Scooby Gang in on whatever's got your spider senses tingling?"1999, Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, Deadly Genes, page 165. From the entry Scooby gang
  • He feels a tingling behind his ears, anticipating the scalpel and the drill.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 399. From the entry scalpel
  • You are hereby notified that my embrocations burn and tingle as if distilled from liquid flame.1983, Jack Vance, chapter 25, in Suldrun’s Garden, New York: Berkley. From the entry embrocation
  • The sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle.1962 July 27, “Manhattan's Lower Depths”, in Time (film review of Strangers in the City), archived from the original on 07 Mar 2012. From the entry asphalt jungle
  • Her face was flushed with the tingling effect of betel leaves.1958, R. K. Narayan, The Guide, Penguin, published 1988, page 194. From the entry betel
  • Ursula's heart quickened agonizingly, though she lay still, tingling with the thought.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry agonizingly
  • Somehow, this made his ejaculations all the more exciting, sending hot tingles streaking through her as he gushed.2009, Emma Holly, Kissing Midnight, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry gush
  • Always keep your radar up and, if you feel your spider senses tingling, they're tingling for a reason.2005, Romy Miller, Man Magnet: How to Be the Best Woman You Can Be in Order to Get the Best Man. From the entry spider sense
  • Tagore’s voice was deep, resonant, vibrant over a long range, and dulceous like the tingling of silver bells.1961, Mankind, page 43. From the entry dulceous
  • The game in use was the regular "draw poker," with, occasionally, the additional tingle of jackpots and an omnivicarious joker.1951, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Speak, Memory. From the entry omnivicarious
  • But Dooley's Irish blood was up, five fingers of tanglefoot tingling in each fist and bubbling in his brain.1906, Charles King, Tonio, Son of the Sierras. From the entry tanglefoot
  • Nothing else in the world mattered to me except the fact that I was experiencing an awesome tingling from my head to my toes!2013, Miles Walcott, Miles to Go..., page 177. From the entry bodygasm

Meaning of tingle

  1. verb To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
  2. verb To feel an ASMR response.
  3. verb To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

Full definition of tingle

Questions about tingle in a sentence

How do you use tingle in a sentence?
Tingle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “My hands were tingling from the cold.”
What is a short sentence with tingle?
“This made me tingle”
What does tingle mean?
Tingle means to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

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