gooseflesh

Example Sentences

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“His Honor? He’s a strange duck, isn’t he? Gives me gooseflesh to think of him, somehow.”

From Literature

It was July, but overcast and my arms turned to gooseflesh in the breeze.

From The Guardian

By the time they reached the hall, she was covered with gooseflesh.

From Literature

One day, you might put together a combination of stir-fried eggplant, hot-and-sour shredded potatoes and strips of cold tofu, which sport these adorable little bumps, like gooseflesh.

From Washington Post

The last 50 pages provide plenty of twists to satisfy thrill-starved readers, but it’s the final haunting sentence that raises gooseflesh and leaves one reaching to turn up the light.

From Washington Post