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

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tingling

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adjective

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Recent Examples of tingling
Adjective
Redshirt freshman quarterback Caden Pinnick of Del Oro High School roots last week against Weber State suffered a shoulder stinger from a hard hit, leading to brief tingling sensations. Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025 For those who may be using a magnesium product to manage leg cramps or uncomfortable tingling sensations, Troxel warned that these symptoms may be a sign of restless legs syndrome, a clinical sleep disorder commonly associated with iron deficiency. Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2025 Some curious clues have EW's Swiftie senses tingling. Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025 This can cause itching, tingling, and irritation. Sherri Gordon, Health, 26 Sep. 2025 On both of us, the product lathered up wonderfully and had an invigorating tingling sensation, likely thanks to the line's new PhytoFerment innovation. Janine Rubenstein, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025 Some people have no symptoms, but others may feel pain, tingling, numbness or muscle weakness. Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025 For some people, this arousal feels like a tingling sensation. Erika W. Smith, Refinery29, 7 Aug. 2025 Consumers with food allergies should stop eating the product and should seek medical attention or use emergency medication such as epinephrine for any reactions or symptoms, including hives, skin rash, itching or tingling mouth, coughing, trouble breathing, nausea, facial swelling, or anaphylaxis. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tingling
Verb
  • Some say his spurs are still jingling down the hallway, chasing after her.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
  • With real feathers and a jingling bell, this feather cat teaser taps into your cat’s natural hunting instincts.
    Nora Colomer may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The sound of laughter and clinking glass pours out of the windows and onto the streets.
    Jonathan Terrell, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But there is a big part of me that just needs a photo of Martin Scorsese and alt-comic Robby Hoffman clinking their Emmy statues together.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Properly constructed, a Martinez is plush with Italian vermouth but still prickly with gin, enjoying the diamond-clarity of a Martini but with the silken luxuriousness of a Manhattan.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Beleaguered American chipmaker Intel is finding itself in slightly less prickly situations lately.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Eerie chants, tinkling percussion, zany strings, and plucky swelling piano.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Oasis is known the world over as the supergroup containing the infamously caustic pair of brothers, Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The result is a safer material that no longer carries the caustic nature of untreated red mud.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Longest-Lasting Battery An experimental electric bell at the University of Oxford, in England, has been ringing nearly continuously for 185 years.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
  • My phone never stopped ringing.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The optimism and creativity in London in the macro-climate is impressive and invigorating.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In 1979, Birkin began an affair with the filmmaker Jacques Doillon, who was thirty-five to her thirty-two—an invigorating change from Gainsbourg, eighteen years her senior.
    Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Norwood is just the latest example of the AI threat that rattling the TV and film industry.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Across the past decade, HARDY has become one of Nashville’s most prolific, versatile voices, a songwriter and artist who can put forth a twangy country anthem as easily as a bone-rattling rock song.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Tingling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tingling. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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