nerve ending
Example Sentences
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"It made every nerve ending in your body stand on end," he said.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2022
In the second type of sensory transduction, a sensory nerve ending responds to a stimulus in the internal or external environment: this neuron constitutes the sensory receptor.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
I am exhausted to my marrow and down to the tip of each nerve ending.
From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2019
For what Ms. Piper achieves is an anatomy of an obsession that, layer by layer, peels off one woman’s skin until every nerve ending is mercilessly exposed.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2018
Every nerve ending on my skin felt like it was on fire.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
