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
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
I thought maybe some nerve ending in my thigh had become so habituated to the vibration that it had gone into permanent iPhone spasm.
From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016
Every nerve ending on my skin felt like it was on fire.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
