prickle

Example Sentences

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Sometimes, wrote our critic Dwight Garner, “you pick up a novel and it makes your skin prickle.”

From New York Times

Across from a closed-up snack cart, I knelt until the cold concrete prickled my knees.

From New York Times

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

“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

The bad news hits us with gale force, although apprehension prickles when the ultrasound tech falls silent.

From Salon