prickle
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“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
And then, on page 358, the plot picked up: My skin got that proper prickle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Good ghost stories are hard to spoil; even if you give away the surprises, you can’t unfeel the prickle on your neck.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
Even now, she recalled the thin, mocking quality of the creature’s voice, the cool prickle of his laughter.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
He asked again, “Are there prickles in the cactus soup?”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2017
Jinny woke up with one arm limp and wobbly, full of prickles.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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
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
With every step I took, my back prickled.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
"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
A vague prickling sensation spread down his face and neck to his chest and back.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
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 fiddle with some artichokes, the cold spines prickling my hand.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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