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.
• Was that a prickle on your scalp?
  — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026
• His breath was hot on my neck, warm prickles, more sparks of heat.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• The rose has few prickles, and the mild fragrance is that of fruit and honey.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025
• Some varieties have few to no prickles on the stems, and some are fragrant.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2019
• Cigarette smoke and Old Spice made my nose prickle.
  — Kate Crane, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026
• Suddenly every sound and motion made my skin prickle and pulse.
  — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 4 July 2017
• Pain might flicker, flash, prickle, drill, lancinate, pinch, cramp, tug, scald, sear, or itch.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
• Your skin prickles, adrenaline spikes — and that primal fight-or-flight instinct kicks in.
  — Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
• The Plums prickle at the lap-dog insinuation.
  — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 29 June 2026
• But Nixon's men grew up in a denser geography of ethnic difference, full of prickles and thorns.
  — Sam Tanenhaus, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2017
• The notion of home is a perpetual prickle that plagues all refugees and exiles, apparently even me.
  — Sigrid MacRae, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• Paul Leonard-Morgan’s score is haunting and foreboding, making the hairs on the back of our neck prickle.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• Lately, we’ve been stuck in them, like a prickle in a quiver, chickens in a coop, bears in a den, waiting out our desolate hibernation.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
• For the spice-averse crowd, don’t be daunted by the chiles — the hot chocolate’s rich milkiness brings the potential punch down to a gentle prickle on the tongue.
  — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 19 Dec. 2025
• 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
• The guitar riff prickles nervously; the melody pleads in the manner of a hungry pet; Parton sings, in a trembling tone, about the woman who could and very well might take her man.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2024
• Researchers at Cornell University, meanwhile, eradicated prickles in an Australian fruit plant known as the desert raisin.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2024
• House Republicans in particular prickle at the notion of approving Obamacare subsidies.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
• After reviewing previous studies and conducting new research, it was found that LOG was associated with prickle growth in approximately 20 species.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2024

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.
• But the sense most people notice first is smell—the scent of old books prickling your nose.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017
• There may be a prickling or itching sensation in the area of the bite.
  — CBS News, 13 July 2023
• My skin prickled with little tugs, like stitches being ripped out.
  — Alison Kinney, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2018
• Whitefish salad prickling with chile and festooned with great tufts of cilantro.
  — Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Your head begins to prickle then relax, and the fear gripping your muscles subsides.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2015
• By then, Aiken's skin had prickled pink, a thin veil of perspiration coating his whole body.
  — Allison Glock, Esquire, 1 Nov. 2014
• Despite all his years of training and the bitter cold inside the suit, his palms prickled with sweat; his heart quickened.
  — Adam Higginbotham, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2024
• There can also be discomfort, prickling or an itching sensation at the site of the bite or scratch.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
• Long gun barrels followed them at military checkpoints, prickling them with fear.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• There also may be discomfort, prickling, or an itching sensation at the site of the bite.
  — CBS News, 4 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Discomfort, such as a prickling sensation, at the site of the bite is also possible.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
• 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
• To start, paresthesia – a sensation of prickling or burning or numbness.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• An awareness of absent ancestors prickles through her writing, but at the same time, her fictional worlds feel solid and present.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
• Symptoms can include 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, 28 Jan. 2024
• But the comedy brings flabbiness, too, the pace slackening, with not enough prickling tension between them.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Sep. 2024
• As Luke walks off, his shirt undone and his furry belly prickling in the desert cold, Danny turns and stares out into the backyard.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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