prickle

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

As he signed in, the 30-year-old felt a prickle of hope.

From Washington Post ● May 7, 2022

It made the skin on the back of my neck prickle.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2019

I turned and looked back the way I’d come: a prickle of marble spires, dim mausoleums, pale in the growing darkness.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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

To get it, you have to reach past the prickles.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2014

She stood up, dumping her lap full of weeds, and reached for the blossoms—gingerly because of the prickles.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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

But what has lingered even more for me is the purple skirt of the catafalque, which seemed to glow beneath the floodlights, and the shiver of history that prickled my arms.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2022

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 with the morning chill as I grabbed my hot chocolate ingredients out of the pantry.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

"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

As the numbers rose, I felt a cold, prickling sensation run through my spine.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022

As I grip the hunk of frozen meat, frost shears off, crystals prickling my skin as they melt against my hand.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2022

I hold it with both hands, my fingers prickling with warmth.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth