horripilation

Example Sentences

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I can’t have been the only person who spent the evening in a pretty much constant state of horripilation.

From New York Times

Call it serendipity or synchronicity, issue your panegyrics, soak up the horripilation and admire the pulchritudinous: This was meant to be.

From Washington Post

Some of the sufferers have an external horripilation, transient shiverings are felt in the front and hind quarters and at the junction of the limbs with the trunk.

From Project Gutenberg

But, suddenly, through all the horripilation there seemed to shine a light.

From Project Gutenberg

The whole company were in a state of horripilation.

From Project Gutenberg