prickle
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It’s the sort of eulogy that, in Agatha Christie fashion, makes everyone’s skin prickle, and makes them wonder if the killer is in the room.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
“It made the back of my neck prickle from its first pages, and that feeling never went away,” wrote New York Times reviewer Dwight Garner.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2022
As he signed in, the 30-year-old felt a prickle of hope.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2022
And then, on page 358, the plot picked up: My skin got that proper prickle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
The thought made the back of Jam’s neck prickle with fresh worry.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
Some hedgehogs arriving at the rescue centre felt like "little empty bags of prickles and very, very slim" due to dehydration, Thompson said.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
Just beware of prickles if you have children or pets.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022
He asked again, “Are there prickles in the cactus soup?”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2017
This mildly prickles his assigned roommate, the slightly insecure Ned, who alone among the characters is given a self-explanatory monologue.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2016
I sob again, and force myself forward, stretching out on the grass, which prickles against my skin.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
And yet reminders of a rather weighty August 1 trade deadline have prickled through Angel Stadium across this weekend series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2023
As we stared into their murky depths, a sudden gust of steam stung the eyes and prickled the skin.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2019
The skin prickled on the back of my neck, an involuntary reaction to what roboticists call the “uncanny valley”—the space between flesh and blood and a too-human machine.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
Sweat developed on my forehead; my skin prickled.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2019
Omakayas could say nothing because stiff hairs prickled at the back of her neck.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
"We show that the phantom touch illusion is described by most subjects as a tingling or prickling, electrifying sensation or as if the wind was passing through their hand."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023
As an adult in Los Angeles, I thought I knew heat — that sizzling dryness that arrives each summer and fall, curing the grasses and prickling the skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
As the numbers rose, I felt a cold, prickling sensation run through my spine.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022
Like the prickling atmosphere of dread that blanketed the original and is only pallidly reproduced here.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
I stopped cold in the middle of the hall as goose bumps ran up my arms, prickling like needles along my neck, because it hadn’t been dumb luck.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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