[
UK
/pɹˈɪkɪŋ/
]
NOUN
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the act of puncturing with a small point
he gave the balloon a small prick
How To Use pricking In A Sentence
- He felt a pricking sensation in his throat.
- Helen now had a curious pricking sensation up and down her spine.
- In the present-day world when allopathy calls the shots everywhere, an acupuncturist (one who treats the patient by pricking needles in his body) also operates his clinic here in the city to treat the patients.
- His interest is in pricking Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin into bristling at each other with wattles glowing scarlet and throats gobbling rage.
- His interest is in pricking Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin into bristling at each other with wattles glowing scarlet and throats gobbling rage.
- I guess it means that we should keep pricking away at him but make no serious effort to get him to resign or step down.
- The flesh steams inside the potato's skin, and pricking it before putting it into the oven allows some of this steam to escape.
- I put down my music, eyes pricking and throat closing up with anxiety, rage, confusion and embarrassment.
- He can see nothing, but he can feel the nearness of the Spider - sharpness pricking at his throat with unexpected care.
- In the experiments in Table 1, pricking of an anther and the ovary induced dehiscence whereas cutting or piercing of the glumes did not.