tingled

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

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Recent Examples of tingled The only recourse those unregulated bookmakers had when their Spidey-senses tingled was to simply stop taking bets on the suspicious game. David Hill, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
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Verb
  • Our buckteeth clinked painfully.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Glasses clinked; and at the center of it all was her very first ESSENCE cover, in October 2017.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Minutes after the fight ended, a lone 911 caller rang authorities to report the brawl.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • According to the arrest report, detectives then found surveillance video showing the outside of the victim’s home moments before the two kidnappers rang the doorbell.
    KFOX Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Trump’s tariff strong-arming has rattled relationships with America’s friends and foes.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Beijing responded not only with its own port fees but the sweeping expansion of export controls on rare earths – a move that rattled Washington.
    Betsy Klein, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Tingled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tingled. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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