How to Use prickle in a Sentence

prickle

1 of 2 noun

• She felt a prickle of fear as the stranger came closer to her.
• He felt the familiar prickle of excitement as the game began.
• His breath was hot on my neck, warm prickles, more sparks of heat.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• Anyone else feeling the faint prickle of a tear or two?
  — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 25 Sep. 2019
• Some varieties have few to no prickles on the stems, and some are fragrant.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2019
• Duende is the Spanish word for it: the prickle on the skin, the ax-edge of experience, sublimity freeze-framed—even a shining closeness to death.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2019
• But Nixon's men grew up in a denser geography of ethnic difference, full of prickles and thorns.
  — Sam Tanenhaus, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2017
• Suddenly every sound and motion made my skin prickle and pulse.
  — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 4 July 2017
• Steel, wire and splintered wood prickle from broken buildings in fantastic shapes: spikes, ruffles, fanfolds of tin and aluminum.
  — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
• Keep wet clothes from getting tangled in your dryer with these hedgehogs, whose round bodies and prickles will help your laundry dry faster by separating it.
  — Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020
• For me, my inflammation began to subside five days post-treatment, just as the tiniest prickle of stubble started growing back on my upper lip.
  — Jessica Defino, Marie Claire, 11 Sep. 2018
• Molly Edwards, who attended Dr. Friedman’s course two years ago, said students looked closely at the difference between thorns, spines and prickles.
  — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
• Your skin prickles, adrenaline spikes — and that primal fight-or-flight instinct kicks in.
  — Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
• The rose has few prickles, and the mild fragrance is that of fruit and honey.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025

prickle

2 of 2 verb

• The hair prickled on the back of my neck.
• The burrs were prickling my arm.
• The wool sweater prickled my skin.
• My skin prickled with fear.
• She felt a prickling sensation in her shoulder.
• There may be a prickling or itching sensation in the area of the bite.
  — CBS News, 13 July 2023
• But the sense most people notice first is smell—the scent of old books prickling your nose.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017
• But the sense most people notice first is smell—the scent of old books prickling your nose.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017
• Needles of terror prickled at the edges of the fairy-tale day in a post-Brexit kingdom.
  — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 24 May 2018
• The novels are prickled like a sea urchin with the spines and fuzz of many indecencies.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2018
• The land yawns out to a colorless horizon that seems to be prickled with thousands of tiny, dark thorns.
  — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
• In 2012, the journal Pain published a case report of a person with burning, prickling pain on both sides of the body.
  — Amber Dance, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2020
• But when the question came, everything in the dusty room seemed to go still; the air itself seemed to thicken, to prickle against our skin.
  — B. Pietras, Longreads, 27 Apr. 2020
• My eyelashes prickled, skin seared as if by a furnace blast.
  — Diana Whitney, Longreads, 19 June 2017
• There’s the prickling sense that a library door or a manhole cover or a forest path might lead you not just to the end of a chapter but to a drugs party or a rave.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
• By then, Aiken's skin had prickled pink, a thin veil of perspiration coating his whole body.
  — Allison Glock, Esquire, 1 Nov. 2014
• Your head begins to prickle then relax, and the fear gripping your muscles subsides.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2015
• My skin prickled with little tugs, like stitches being ripped out.
  — Alison Kinney, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2018
• African species – a favorite food of giraffes – form menacing thorns while the Australian wattles are much friendlier (and prickle free).
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 16 Feb. 2018
• These are stinging, burning or prickling sensations which worsen with age and can last for hours or even days as the most common side effects.
  — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz Africa, 21 Mar. 2020
• Last night, temperatures were so low the wind prickled like a cactus, but a lucky few were offered respite inside the Marlo Laz launch dinner.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2018
• There’s the prickling sense, reading Macfarlane like Dyer, that a library door or a manhole cover or a bosky path might lead you not just to the end of a chapter but to a drugs party or a rave.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 3 June 2019
• To walk with Marfil Estrella was to feel the skin-prickling third sense that every eye in the territory was on you, with looks that showed evident disgust or desire.
  — Alice Driver, Longreads, 30 June 2018
• The laser felt like tiny needles quickly prickling my skin and was somewhat uncomfortable, but not exactly painful.
  — Sadé Carpenter, RedEye Chicago, 3 Apr. 2018
• Symptoms can include: initially cold skin and a prickling feeling; red, white, bluish-white, or grayish-yellow skin; numbness; and hard or waxy-looking skin.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2023
• A feeling of foreboding came over her, her skin prickling at the familiarity of the allegations.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
• All the performances are deliciously lurid; the sound designers Ray Archie and Stephanie Singer make the (empty?) rooms prickle with supernatural dread.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 28 July 2021
• Scenes once passed over as unimportant begin to prickle with new meaning, as if time itself had been the missing ingredient for understanding them.
  — Jenny Offill, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2020
• Discomfort, such as a prickling sensation, at the site of the bite is also possible.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
• Whitefish salad prickling with chile and festooned with great tufts of cilantro.
  — Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025