ticklish

How To Use ticklish In A Sentence

• It does leave race-goers here facing a potentially ticklish problem, however.
• That reaction demonstrates the ticklish situation the press finds itself in during wartime, when the interaction between press and government comes into stark relief.
• 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
• He chuckled, unable to disguise the fact that he was ticklish.
• 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
• The theatre's always been a bit of a ticklish subject with me.
• I'm ticklish too, and I know how annoying it is when people take advantage of it.
• 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
• In addition, there is the ticklish problem of reparations.
• Particularly ‘ticklish’ individuals wriggle and writhe in apparent agony, as well as laughing hysterically, when being tickled.