How To Use Pricking In A Sentence
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He felt a pricking sensation in his throat.
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Helen now had a curious pricking sensation up and down her spine.
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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.
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His interest is in pricking Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin into bristling at each other with wattles glowing scarlet and throats gobbling rage.
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His interest is in pricking Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin into bristling at each other with wattles glowing scarlet and throats gobbling rage.
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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.
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The flesh steams inside the potato's skin, and pricking it before putting it into the oven allows some of this steam to escape.
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I put down my music, eyes pricking and throat closing up with anxiety, rage, confusion and embarrassment.
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He can see nothing, but he can feel the nearness of the Spider - sharpness pricking at his throat with unexpected care.
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In the experiments in Table 1, pricking of an anther and the ovary induced dehiscence whereas cutting or piercing of the glumes did not.
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That really did concern me, because if New Zealanders are not pricking up their ears to listen to a wide range of programming on National Radio, then it is just broadcasting into the ether, and there really is not that much point to it.
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A nurse comes over and takes a blood sample by pricking the baby's finger with a needle and squeezing blood into a test tube.
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Mrs Harris said while one villager was gardening he narrowly missed pricking his finger on a needle thrown in his hedge.
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With the pricking of the Wall Street bubble, that theory is now itself history.
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She felt tears pricking her eyes, and realized they had been there since she had touched his face.
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The ancient practice of "pricking" a name on a piece of parchment presented to Her Majesty at a meeting of the Privy Council is how she gives her assent to that individual becoming a High Sheriff.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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When the city of our solemnities is thus made a quiet habitation at any time, and we are fed from day to day with the bread of life, no man forbidding us, we must give thanks to God for it and prepare for changes, still longing for that holy mountain in which there shall never be any pricking brier nor grieving thorn.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The coming of spring brings it – the first crocus pricking up, dawn a moment earlier day by day, the mist of green on honeysuckle hedges in February, the early arabis, spicily warm, with the bees 'hum about it.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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This delightful anthology of prose and poetry, mostly homegrown but with contributions from Pliny on the magnificence of the box hedges cut into a thousand animal shapes in his Tuscan garden (with hippodrome), the 9th-century Frankish monk Strabo on the cultivation of dung heaps, and Thomas Jefferson on his ever-expanding vegetable patch, is the perfect companion for weeding, dead-heading, pricking out and mulching.
Back to nature
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Yes, I have heard something curious on that score, sir; how that a dismasted man never entirely loses the feeling of his old spar, but it will still be pricking him at times.
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A yeomanly tear was pricking at the corner of my eye as I stepped out across a small junction and was nearly mown down by a scooter.
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He watched the tramp hobbling painfully into the distance, and in his pale blue eyes came that pricking which is of tears.
A Sheaf of Corn
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She told her twin of their sister without any emotion, and her brother only nodded, silent tears pricking his eyes and disappearing without falling.
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The young man lay on his bare back, feeling the needles pricking his skin and listening to the sound of the tattoo instrument.
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Never microwave a whole egg without pricking the yolk with a toothpick to break the outer membrance.
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Africa, the fashion is merely to raise the epidermis by a slight pricking, which is described as affording rather a pleasurable excitement.
John Rutherford, the White Chief
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But to make its effect deadly at this distance, something more than the mere pricking of the tiny "sumpit" was needed.
The Castaways
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She was no refined amorist, that one, strong as a bullock, randy as a stoat, and the roughest ride I could remember since Ranavalona of Madagascar — another Black Pearl of Africa, but before I could make philosophic review of this coincidence, my attention was distracted by a gentle pricking of some sharp point under my right ear, and a soft voice whispering:
Flashman on the March
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Her voice towards Millie was somewhat pricking and authoritative.
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Shivering, I started to hum the song my mother used to sing to me, tears pricking my eyes.
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She nosed the material curiously, ears pricking.
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All you do is half the tomatoes and fry them in butter for five minutes, first cut side down, over a moderate heat, all the time pricking the firm sides with a sharp knife.
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His conscience is pricking him now that he realizes what he has done.
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The rabbit stopped suddenly, pricking up its ears.
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She saw herself chained to a coarse wooden pole, the straw on the floor pricking her legs as she kneeled, head bowed submissively.
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Relieved at some respite from this situation, the daggers of worry which had been pricking at my mind began to leave for just the briefest of moments…
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Slowly, she could feel an extraordinary force of power behind her, as if pricking on her skin to taunt her.
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The carpenters and plasterers Michael Angelo employed would soon learn to perform the more mechanical part of his work, such as laying the intonaco, pricking the cartoons, and grinding colours, and as they could not have inserted into the work any tradition contrary to the new manner of the artist, would be preferred by him to second-rate artist assistants; no doubt, too, the boy he employed in household work would be made to help.
Michael Angelo Buonarroti
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Never microwave a whole egg without pricking the yolk with a toothpick to break the outer membrance.
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That pricking of pomposity and ceremony reflects one of her enjoyable, endearing traits and a quality sadly missing in general politics since she quit.
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Let us have it out, and then I'll kiss the place to make it well as I used to do when I took the splinters from the fingers you are pricking so unmercifully, said the doctor, anxious to relieve his pet patient as soon as possible.
Rose in Bloom
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Manda clamped her hand to her mouth, feeling tears pricking her eyes.
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My toe is pricking with the gout.
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All process can be accomplished by automatic from takin paper, yarn and glue to forming sack, compounding, margin folding, printing, pin-hole pricking, cutting, counting and sack out.
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Blotchy foot skin then develops with swelling, numbness, tingling, pricking or a wooden feeling in the feet.
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This was achieved in two ways - by pricking the paper or by indenting it with a stylus.
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The surprising and illuminating thing to Westerling was the inspired statement to the press from the Gray Foreign Office, adroitly appealing to Gray chauvinism and justifying the "intrepidity" of the Gray commander in response to so-called "pin-pricking" exasperations.
The Last Shot
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What began life as a joke at the expense of a junior TV researcher was to become one of the largest media deceptions in modern times, along the way pricking the pomposity of the many intellectual pseuds who descend on Edinburgh every August.
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Matters were not helped by Maeve occasionally pricking her finger with the needle, but at last she had had her say.
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As the Roman Virginius stood with his sword pricking the flesh over the heart of his beloved daughter, so do I stand ready to destroy my offspring rather than suffer its dishonor at the hands of any Appius Claudius.
The Lever A Novel
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New devices are being developed to make blood glucose testing less painful than the usual monitoring systems, which involve drawing blood by pricking the skin with a lancet.
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I could feel tears pricking the corners of my eyes, threatening to spill out again.
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Each leaf or folio has two pages and these were normally marked out for the text and any illumination by a process of pricking and ruling using a variety of instruments.
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All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels.
Set in Silver
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I take great pleasure in pricking each berry with a needle in several places then dropping them into a bottle with sugar and gin, but others like to freeze the sloes in a plastic bag then bash them hard with a hammer or rolling pin.
Nigel Slater's classic sloe gin recipe
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Harris and Snelling were placed under keepers, who amused themselves by tormenting their unhappy prisoners in various ways; such as pricking them with their knives, cutting off small pieces of their ears and fingers, and pulling out clumps of their hair.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
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He felt tears pricking his eyes again, and brushed them away.
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One vacation she was given a holiday job in the palace gardens, pricking out marigolds.
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He felt a pricking sensation in his throat.
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Many sufferers complain the daily pricking of their fingers is more painful than having an injection due to the mass of nerve endings at their fingertips.
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She reached the opposite gate, and felt her way along its rails and the rails of the sheep-fold, till her hand encountered the pricking of the gorsy wall.
Adam Bede
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The big spring jobs, sowing, pricking out and planting out bedding and vegetables, pruning early flowering shrubs and getting the lawn into shape, are all finished.
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Nonetheless, it still bothered him in the back of his mind, pricking at him like an annoying and persistent mosquito, which just wouldn't let up.
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Through it all there is a feeling of stage properties, a smell of hair-oil, an aspect of buhl, a remembrance of tailors, and that pricking of the conscience which must be the general accompaniment of paste diamonds.
An Autobiography
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Once a bubble is inflating many factors conspire to discourage a regulator pricking it.
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He lathered up in the shower, the water pricking and pounding down on his skin.
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Another method of purifying the ultramarine from the cement may be used, which is the pricking the yolks of eggs with a pin, and moistening the matter to be purified with the soft part that will run out, and working them together in a glass or flint mortar; after which the mixture must be put into the lixivium, and proceeded with as is above directed.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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_Dydo_, with the Purple flowre for the wounde of _Pius Æneas_: And finding my heart strooken and inwardly pricking, secretly filled and compressiuely stuft; recording and gathering together into it, varyable thoughts and working of Loue, my immedicable wounde grewe greater and greater.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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Once a bubble is inflating many factors conspire to discourage a regulator pricking it.
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When the plantlets are ready to transplant, they are simply removed by pushing the base of the cell and dislodging soil and rootball together, avoiding tedious pricking out and minimising root disturbance.
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It seemed incredible, yet it was true; it was proved to be so to me by his pricking his ears and his attentive look at the mention of the word prepossessing him in relation to the money: Government.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8
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Stella's head started spinning and she felt tears pricking her eyes.
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Cats and dogs also demonstrated their natural hunting instincts pricking up their ears when cats, mice and budgies came on the screen.
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Charles Payne, or Goddard, their opinion of "pricking" a fox.
Border and Bastille
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She wanted to remain in the earthy warmth of the glass-house, watching him pricking out seedlings.
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And because that he wist well and knew that chastity in delices, pity in riches, and humility in honour often perish, he took and gave his courage to sobriety and good diet, to humility and misericorde, keeping himself right curiously from the pricking sautes and watch of the world, the flesh and the devil, and chastised his body and brought it to servitude by the ensample of the apostles.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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Sensing her despair, Malachi felt tears pricking his own eyes.
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Close to the waterside a footpath led off downstream, and beside it the abbey's gardens lay neatly arrayed all along the rich plain, and three or four brothers were pricking out plants of cabbage and colewort.
The Rose Rent
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I stumbled out into the early afternoon with my new machine, enough testing strips and pricking lancets to go on with, my marked-up diary and a fuddled brain.
