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
As he signed in, the 30-year-old felt a prickle of hope.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2022
Cervantes and Bocaccio,, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Abe Lincoln, and Will Rogers are already smiling, because they know the game may prickle but it's wholesome fun.Steward,
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2017
Tears start to prickle in my eyes, but I will not cry in front of Mrs. Gruver.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Maybe there’s another reason to feel the prickles on the back of your neck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The bad news hits us with gale force, although apprehension prickles when the ultrasound tech falls silent.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2022
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
It stung like the bees, like a burn, full of prickles.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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
My skin prickled again upon hearing the news, but this time, as I breathed out, I felt a calm sweep over me.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2017
So dark was the night that it was prickled with fiery dots.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
"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
As I grip the hunk of frozen meat, frost shears off, crystals prickling my skin as they melt against my hand.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2022
His careless generosity left my face prickling with heat.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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