prickling

Example Sentences

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"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

I feel a strange prickling sensation on the back of my neck, like the darkness in the corridor is watching me.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer