Example sentences for: ticklish

How can you use “ticklish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Over $100 billion in current dollars has been spent on missile defense since the early '60s, but the task of hitting a hypersonic bullet with a bullet remains a ticklish one.

  • Are there any ticklish questions of etiquette attached to wearing a wire and recording conversations with one's supposed friends and colleagues for the benefit of, say, a special prosecutor?

  • Whether it's a ticklish question depends on where one wears the wire.

  • It isn't just a convenient dumping ground for convicts, he tells us, with the ticklish pride so typical of the expatriate (Carey lives in New York).

  • It also avoids the ticklish subject of the Windsors, who are now the only family in the country with political power by right of birth.


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