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

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

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022

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

But a prickling ran over his skin as he watched the people in the church, their attention focused on his mother, all of them awaiting whatever it was she was going to say.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro