How to Use prickle in a Sentence

prickle

1 of 2 noun
Definition of pricklenext
Synonyms for pricklenext
  • She felt a prickle of fear as the stranger came closer to her.
  • He felt the familiar prickle of excitement as the game began.
  • His breath was hot on my neck, warm prickles, more sparks of heat.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Anyone else feeling the faint prickle of a tear or two?
    — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Some varieties have few to no prickles on the stems, and some are fragrant.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Duende is the Spanish word for it: the prickle on the skin, the ax-edge of experience, sublimity freeze-framed—even a shining closeness to death.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2019
  • But Nixon's men grew up in a denser geography of ethnic difference, full of prickles and thorns.
    — Sam Tanenhaus, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Suddenly every sound and motion made my skin prickle and pulse.
    — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 4 July 2017
  • Steel, wire and splintered wood prickle from broken buildings in fantastic shapes: spikes, ruffles, fanfolds of tin and aluminum.
    — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
  • Keep wet clothes from getting tangled in your dryer with these hedgehogs, whose round bodies and prickles will help your laundry dry faster by separating it.
    — Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020
  • For me, my inflammation began to subside five days post-treatment, just as the tiniest prickle of stubble started growing back on my upper lip.
    — Jessica Defino, Marie Claire, 11 Sep. 2018
  • Molly Edwards, who attended Dr. Friedman’s course two years ago, said students looked closely at the difference between thorns, spines and prickles.
    — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
  • The answer seems self-evident: Thorns, spines and prickles are plants’ defensive weaponry, making their most precious parts unpalatable — even untouchable — to big plant-eaters, like deer and other mammals.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2017
  • House Republicans in particular prickle at the notion of approving Obamacare subsidies.
    — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
  • She felt a prickle of fear as the stranger came closer to her.
  • He felt the familiar prickle of excitement as the game began.
  • His breath was hot on my neck, warm prickles, more sparks of heat.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Anyone else feeling the faint prickle of a tear or two?
    — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Some varieties have few to no prickles on the stems, and some are fragrant.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Duende is the Spanish word for it: the prickle on the skin, the ax-edge of experience, sublimity freeze-framed—even a shining closeness to death.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2019
  • But Nixon's men grew up in a denser geography of ethnic difference, full of prickles and thorns.
    — Sam Tanenhaus, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Suddenly every sound and motion made my skin prickle and pulse.
    — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 4 July 2017
  • Steel, wire and splintered wood prickle from broken buildings in fantastic shapes: spikes, ruffles, fanfolds of tin and aluminum.
    — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
  • Keep wet clothes from getting tangled in your dryer with these hedgehogs, whose round bodies and prickles will help your laundry dry faster by separating it.
    — Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020
  • For me, my inflammation began to subside five days post-treatment, just as the tiniest prickle of stubble started growing back on my upper lip.
    — Jessica Defino, Marie Claire, 11 Sep. 2018
  • Molly Edwards, who attended Dr. Friedman’s course two years ago, said students looked closely at the difference between thorns, spines and prickles.
    — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
  • The answer seems self-evident: Thorns, spines and prickles are plants’ defensive weaponry, making their most precious parts unpalatable — even untouchable — to big plant-eaters, like deer and other mammals.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2017
  • House Republicans in particular prickle at the notion of approving Obamacare subsidies.
    — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
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prickle

2 of 2 verb
  • The hair prickled on the back of my neck.
  • The burrs were prickling my arm.
  • The wool sweater prickled my skin.
  • My skin prickled with fear.
  • She felt a prickling sensation in her shoulder.
  • There may be a prickling or itching sensation in the area of the bite.
    — CBS News, 13 July 2023
  • But the sense most people notice first is smell—the scent of old books prickling your nose.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017
  • But the sense most people notice first is smell—the scent of old books prickling your nose.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Needles of terror prickled at the edges of the fairy-tale day in a post-Brexit kingdom.
    — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 24 May 2018
  • The novels are prickled like a sea urchin with the spines and fuzz of many indecencies.
    — New York Times, 23 May 2018
  • The land yawns out to a colorless horizon that seems to be prickled with thousands of tiny, dark thorns.
    — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
  • In 2012, the journal Pain published a case report of a person with burning, prickling pain on both sides of the body.
    — Amber Dance, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2020
  • But when the question came, everything in the dusty room seemed to go still; the air itself seemed to thicken, to prickle against our skin.
    — B. Pietras, Longreads, 27 Apr. 2020
  • My eyelashes prickled, skin seared as if by a furnace blast.
    — Diana Whitney, Longreads, 19 June 2017
  • There’s the prickling sense that a library door or a manhole cover or a forest path might lead you not just to the end of a chapter but to a drugs party or a rave.
    — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
  • By then, Aiken's skin had prickled pink, a thin veil of perspiration coating his whole body.
    — Allison Glock, Esquire, 1 Nov. 2014
  • Your head begins to prickle then relax, and the fear gripping your muscles subsides.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2015
  • My skin prickled with little tugs, like stitches being ripped out.
    — Alison Kinney, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2018
  • African species – a favorite food of giraffes – form menacing thorns while the Australian wattles are much friendlier (and prickle free).
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 16 Feb. 2018
  • These are stinging, burning or prickling sensations which worsen with age and can last for hours or even days as the most common side effects.
    — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz Africa, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Last night, temperatures were so low the wind prickled like a cactus, but a lucky few were offered respite inside the Marlo Laz launch dinner.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2018
  • There’s the prickling sense, reading Macfarlane like Dyer, that a library door or a manhole cover or a bosky path might lead you not just to the end of a chapter but to a drugs party or a rave.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 3 June 2019
  • To walk with Marfil Estrella was to feel the skin-prickling third sense that every eye in the territory was on you, with looks that showed evident disgust or desire.
    — Alice Driver, Longreads, 30 June 2018
  • The laser felt like tiny needles quickly prickling my skin and was somewhat uncomfortable, but not exactly painful.
    — Sadé Carpenter, RedEye Chicago, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Symptoms can include: initially cold skin and a prickling feeling; red, white, bluish-white, or grayish-yellow skin; numbness; and hard or waxy-looking skin.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2023
  • A feeling of foreboding came over her, her skin prickling at the familiarity of the allegations.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
  • All the performances are deliciously lurid; the sound designers Ray Archie and Stephanie Singer make the (empty?) rooms prickle with supernatural dread.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 28 July 2021
  • Scenes once passed over as unimportant begin to prickle with new meaning, as if time itself had been the missing ingredient for understanding them.
    — Jenny Offill, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2020
  • In describing the events around his hospitalization, Navalny said on his website that his cellmates noticed on Saturday that the skin on his neck was reddening, and as the day progressed his face, ears, and neck began burning and prickling.
    — Neil MacFarquhar, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • In describing the events around his hospitalization, Mr. Navalny said on his website that his cellmates noticed on Saturday that the skin on his neck was reddening, and as the day progressed his face, ears and neck began burning and prickling.
    — New York Times, 29 July 2019

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