prickling

[ UK /pɹˈɪklɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings
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How To Use prickling In A Sentence

  • Even so, she was aware of icy sweat prickling her neck.
  • A prickling sensation running the length of her spine told her that Rourke had made an appearance.
  • When the tub was full, Alicia hastily stripped off and sank down into it, savouring the sensation of hot, clean water prickling her skin.
  • A prickling sensation running the length of her spine told her that Rourke had made an appearance.
  • The incessant pricklings with which we were harassed, sufficiently indicated that our attire was peopled with the filthy vermin to which the Chinese and The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
  • Do you find any trouble or disquiet in your body by the importunate stings and pricklings of the flesh? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • She lifted a single hand from his grasp and traced the bottom of his chin, his stubble prickling her fingers.
  • Tina let something show, something which brought to the back of Deirdre 's neck an anticipatory prickling. DEATH OF A NYMPH
  • He swam face deep, catching short breaths under the crook of his arm, burying himself in the live blue running sparkle, every muscle stretched as if he were trying to rub all the staleness that can come to the mind and the restless pricklings that will always worry the body clean from him, like a snake's cast skin, against the wet rough hands of the water. Young People's Pride
  • ‘I dreamt about you last night,’ he tells her, and she's suddenly prickling with curiosity and self-consciousness.
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