prickling
Example Sentences
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"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
The pain that had started in my neck was jumping around — now stabbing sensations in my spine, now prickling and tingling in my extremities.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2021
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
I felt my arms prickling with nervousness, sweat glands threatening to burst open.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
