prickle

How To Use prickle In A Sentence

• Common knapweed is like a pretty thistle without prickles. Times, Sunday Times
• Now he puts the light sounds with something else remembered, with primrose, with laughter, and down through him a prickle runs and it seems to stop in his belly, below him.
• When mixed in among boundary plants it may even enhance security as the branches bear hooked prickles which reduce its tactility.
• He told me of one disciplinary action where students had to carry timber in bare feet across an oval, which had a lot of bindi-eye in the turf (bindi-eye is a particularly unpleasant little prickle which blooms around October in these parts).
• For just a moment Silver felt a prickle of unease about her choice of this man, but it was too late for doubts now.
• Her healing stomach itched and prickled with a stinging burn.
• The air was cool; her skin prickled from the air and from fear.
• The rough cloth prickled my skin.
• Maddock felt his eyes prickle with emotion as looked at the fallen man in front of him, but he reminded himself that now wasn't the time.
• M. Naudin states, that a certain kind of furze or thistle, of which cattle are very fond, may be made to grow without thorns -- an important consideration, seeing that at present, before it can be used as food, it has to undergo a laborious beating, to crush and break the prickles with which it is covered. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852