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’s the sort of eulogy that, in Agatha Christie fashion, makes everyone’s skin prickle, and makes them wonder if the killer is in the room.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

“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

I felt the hair on my neck begin to prickle, my fingers twist the fabric of my uniform shorts.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

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

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

To get it, you have to reach past the prickles.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2014

A film of sw'eat covers every inch of my skin, the inside of my mouth prickles, my eyes itch, mascara rubbed into their corners.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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

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

Emily prickled with wonder at how well James knew his home turf.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

"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 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

Like the prickling atmosphere of dread that blanketed the original and is only pallidly reproduced here.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

Gene felt a prickling sensation on his scalp.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston