prickle
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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
Joplin made the hairs on the back of people’s necks prickle.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2019
“I’m going to go find a bra,” I say quickly, eyes starting to prickle.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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
The bad news hits us with gale force, although apprehension prickles when the ultrasound tech falls silent.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2022
Just beware of prickles if you have children or pets.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022
Something about this letter sent prickles up my arm and made me feel uneasy, but my curiosity got the better of me, and I unfolded it and read.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
Across from a closed-up snack cart, I knelt until the cold concrete prickled my knees.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
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
“There was the flash of a million suns. Then the heat prickled my eyes like needles.”
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
"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
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
Suddenly the water felt cold to her, and the little fish prickling at her skin an-noying.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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