prickly

How To Use prickly In A Sentence

• In the split second that their gazes locked, that same prickly sensation consumed his mind as if the blood flow to his brain had suddenly been cut off.
• After a while, the prickly feeling of anxiousness dulls and turns blunt.
• At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the in the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and Cattleya orchids. White House florist shows Obamas' relaxed style
• Yorkshire folk turned prickly yesterday after a wild flower charity announced that the common harebell had replaced the white rose as the county's floral emblem.
• We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus.
• The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
• Many of the species native to California, such as the prickly chaparral, rely on fires to propagate.
• The entrepreneur has a prickly relationship with the City. Times, Sunday Times
• The fruit from the prickly pear - a cross between kiwi fruit and a ripe pear - is wonderful.
• Four hundred species of flowers, including Indian paintbrushes, prickly poppies, flowering herbs, and the most compelling blossom of all - the bluebonnet, the Texas state flower.