prickle

I felt a slight prickle at the nape of my neck, having lived my life in a manner that allowed ordering without performing a cost-benefit analysis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

George thought she had scattered his ashes at Bridlington Harbour, as per his wishes, and said the discovery had made "me feel sick and the hairs prickle on the back of my neck".

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

“It made the back of my neck prickle from its first pages, and that feeling never went away,” wrote New York Times reviewer Dwight Garner.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

Southampton’s briny scent began to prickle the air; he caught his first glimpse of the sea.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021

There was a long and awkward silence in which his scar continued to prickle and throb, and which was broken at last by Mrs. Weasley.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Maybe there’s another reason to feel the prickles on the back of your neck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Some hedgehogs arriving at the rescue centre felt like "little empty bags of prickles and very, very slim" due to dehydration, Thompson said.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

This creates a bond between you, and it raises prickles of tension: You’re concerned about Nelly, and you’re wondering, too, about this stranger.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

Just beware of prickles if you have children or pets.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022

The Commandant passes behind me, and my neck prickles unpleasantly.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

It's part of why he feels ironically prickled about reporting Martha, and not Darrien, to the police.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2024

And yet reminders of a rather weighty August 1 trade deadline have prickled through Angel Stadium across this weekend series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2023

As we stared into their murky depths, a sudden gust of steam stung the eyes and prickled the skin.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2019

The skin prickled on the back of my neck, an involuntary reaction to what roboticists call the “uncanny valley”—the space between flesh and blood and a too-human machine.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019

My skin prickled as Hamlet told how he, too, beheld the ghost of his dead father, armed from head to toe.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

"We show that the phantom touch illusion is described by most subjects as a tingling or prickling, electrifying sensation or as if the wind was passing through their hand."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023

As an adult in Los Angeles, I thought I knew heat — that sizzling dryness that arrives each summer and fall, curing the grasses and prickling the skin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

Like the prickling atmosphere of dread that blanketed the original and is only pallidly reproduced here.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

That includes Masha herself, a Goop-tastic creation whose studied smile, meant to convey a sense of reassurance, is locked in an eternal battle with a non-specific accent prickling with dubiousness.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2021

Harry waited, holding his breath, fighting against the prickling of his scar.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling