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

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

My pulse was suddenly hammering in my ears, and I felt a cold sweat prickle down my back.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Maybe there’s another reason to feel the prickles on the back of your neck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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

Just beware of prickles if you have children or pets.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022

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

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2014

The phrase “outside the fence” prickles in my brain.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

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

The hair on the back of my neck prickled.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

"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

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

It was twilight in a spooky churchyard, and the hairs on the back of her neck were prickling.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman