prickle

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

And then, on page 358, the plot picked up: My skin got that proper prickle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

There had to be more than one ghost near them, from the sheer tension in the air, the prickle on the back of his neck and the sense of being watched.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

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

I feel prickles up my neck, hearing the ladies’ heels clack away.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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

From an aircraft flying just a few thousand feet above the canopy, the surveyors prickled each square meter with 15 laser pulses.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2018

The joy of sticking it to Elliot faded quickly as goose bumps prickled up my neck.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

"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

With its prickling, apocalyptic aesthetic and persistent paranoia, this spooky political thriller is all about a mood: conspiratorial, sinister, unsettled.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

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

He could feel a burning, prickling feeling in the inner corners of his eyes.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling