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  • noun Plural form of tingling.

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Examples

  • In the months that followed, one by one, all the children came back to the institute with a spectrum of neurological complaints—headaches, tinglings, abstract speckles of light—then slumped into coma.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  •   Then she would have reached for him again, her courage restored by bittersweet tinglings of recollected love, and placed her long black feathers on his hand, the wrinkles and lines engraved in his knuckles looking more beautiful than ever.

    After the Badlands 2010

  • In the months that followed, one by one, all the children came back to the institute with a spectrum of neurological complaints—headaches, tinglings, abstract speckles of light—then slumped into coma.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • In the months that followed, one by one, all the children came back to the institute with a spectrum of neurological complaints—headaches, tinglings, abstract speckles of light—then slumped into coma.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • I was working on the torso with the knife point and could feel the first real tinglings of response down my spine and through my legs and I didn't want to stop.

    DarklyDreamingDexter 2004

  • I was working on the torso with the knife point and could feel the first real tinglings of response down my spine and through my legs and I didn't want to stop.

    Darkly Dreaming Dexter Lindsay, Jeff 2004

  • I recently watched as a business school professor channeled the spirit of Henry Grady for a collection of visiting financiers, entrepreneurs, and vice presidents of marketing, important men who had braved rush hour traffic in hopes of having their warm tinglings about the "emerging markets of the global South" affirmed by a higher, or at least a tenured, authority.

    REVIEWS 2001

  • Madame Caron, who suffered from tinglings; of Lheureux, who had vertigo; of Lestiboudois, who had rheumatism; and of Madame

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • These were tinglings, at most that washing-machine feeling in the pit of your stomach.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • Ruha pictured the ground beneath his feet turning to quicksand, but this time she experienced no strange tinglings in the pit other stomach.

    The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996

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