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
A free nerve ending, as its name implies, is an unencapsulated dendrite of a sensory neuron.
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
And when I felt like I could not take it one more minute, the swirl of sensations hit a dizzying crescendo, sending every nerve ending in my body on high alert.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
