How to Use spine-tingling in a Sentence

spine-tingling

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• Fans of spine-tingling storytelling have a new reason to check the calendar.
  — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
• This is an album of spine-tingling purification.
  — David Harris, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2026
• More mindful cooks, however, preferred tater tots, which, at their peak texture, offer spine-tingling crunch.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2026
• The graphical fidelity adds to the horror, as the fear and terror that takes over Hinako's face during cutscenes is spine-tingling.
  — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
• This masterful horror novel about a vengeful vampire who stalks a reservation is told through interviews which gives it a spine-tingling realism.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
• His most spine-tingling moment came later, when doing a post-production recording session with McCarthy.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 May 2026
• Movie fans won't find any spoilers here, but bringing down the lights is an ingenious Alfred Hitchcock-like gimmick that sets up a spine-tingling surprise.
  — Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
• Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary thriller Psycho comes alive on the big screen as its spine-tingling score is performed live-to-film by the Cincinnati Pops.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Feb. 2026
• Visitors can also join ghost tours and explore Yosemite Cemetery for more spine-tingling history during Halloween season.
  — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
• Whether your cinematic tastes tend more toward spine-tingling suspense, bloody gore, cheesy horror, or light-hearted fantasy, watching spooky movies is one of the best ways to get into the Halloween spirit.
  — Zoe Baillargeon, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2024
• Below is a selection of powerful reads for every taste, ranging from spine-tingling thrillers to poignant reflections on American history, swoony romance and everything in between.
  — Janey Wetzel, PEOPLE, 19 June 2026
• The climb, which will stream globally, will be attempted under spine-tingling circumstances — with no ropes or safety nets to potentially break Honnold’s fall, according to Netflix’s Tudum.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
• More importantly, the most recent of these sightings, just two years ago, was by a railroad passenger, so keep a lookout for a tall, hairy figure, or for massive footprints, which are also commonly reported, and listen for the mysterious creature’s spine-tingling howls.
  — The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
• Though there was a thrilling edge to their early work—the lightning-in-a-bottle sample drill of Polo Perks and Moh Baretta, that spine-tingling Pasto Flocco run—it’s been dulled a bit in favor of ambling minimalism.
  — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 6 Apr. 2026
• Now Burwell has emerged as the spine-tingling Angelo Badalamenti to Barker’s David Lynch, or maybe a synth-patching Bernard Herrmann to Barker’s Alfred Hitchcock.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
• An intimate, spine-tingling evening of creative conversations on horror, sound, prosthetics, and spectacle featuring Danny Elfman, Akela Cooper and Janelle’s costuming team Sasha Glasser and Alex Navarro.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Oct. 2025
• Creator/showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar return for the spine-tingling second season of WEDNESDAY, alongside executive producer and director Tim Burton.
  — Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025