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

Designed to be blasted out of a car in a dingy alleyway at 1am, this abrasive shot of horrorcore is as raw as an exposed nerve ending.

From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2020

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

Toomer had taught that all fish, the greatest and smallest, listened to the testimony of the tide in their every nerve ending, in every bone, and in every cell.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy