prickly
Example Sentences
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On Camino Escalante, Guthrie’s squat, orange brick house is set back from the road behind a lawn planted with prickly pear, agave, cholla and yucca.
“It’s too prickly. The branches scratch my cheek.”
From Literature
As a result, suit tampering has long been a prickly issue…
The characters were pricklier and more restless than I remembered, and Alcott’s voice—good-natured but chiding, unsentimental—was a revelation.
It was too much to think about all at once, and his skin began to feel prickly and too tight.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
