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

“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

Others will remain to prickle your conscience and your politics; the premise almost seems designed to make you squirm.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

When we passed the mill, I got a cold prickle on my neck, like someone was watching me.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

Was it “Chimeras,” the electronic musician guessed by phone before a recent Berlin performance, selecting a 2006 piece where prickles of electric guitar scatter like a galaxy around a lulling beat?

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

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

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 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

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 ● Sep. 20, 2022

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

While Linda peeled an orange and the smell of that prickled his nostrils, Bloom lay on his back, head resting on his pack, facing up into the airy green aspen foliage.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

"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

Barely conscious of the fierce prickling of his scar, he too started to run around the cellar, feeling the walls for he hardly knew what, knowing in his heart that it was useless.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling