prickle

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

In this powerful, poetic lament, Harnage’s bare-chested body seems to prickle as it bends, wobbles and rights itself again.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

“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

Mr. Kapasi felt a prickle on his skin.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

This creates a bond between you, and it raises prickles of tension: You’re concerned about Nelly, and you’re wondering, too, about this stranger.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

Just beware of prickles if you have children or pets.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022

“I need to be getting back to the office, Mrs. Trotter. You’ll let me know”—She turned to Gilly with prickles in her big blue eyes—“you’ll let me know if there’re any problems?”

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

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

Sweat developed on my forehead; my skin prickled.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2019

My skin prickled as Hamlet told how he, too, beheld the ghost of his dead father, armed from head to toe.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

"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

Cleverly playing with our sympathies, Gaynord, in his feature debut, stirs upper-class twittery and working-class pragmatism into scenes prickling with ambiguity.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022

I stopped cold in the middle of the hall as goose bumps ran up my arms, prickling like needles along my neck, because it hadn’t been dumb luck.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin