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Image The Cement Garden By Ian McEwan The premise alone is goose bumps grim: After the death of their mother, four children decide to hide her body in a trunk of cement in their basement and fend for themselves rather than surrender to social workers and foster care.
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M.l. Rio, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Every one of them is liable to give you goose bumps or knock your shoulders back.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
The skin rose on my arms; goose bumps followed.
—airmail.news, 18 May 2024
The triggering of goose bumps varies from person to person, of course.
—Jeremy Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2014
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M.l. Rio, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Every one of them is liable to give you goose bumps or knock your shoulders back.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
The skin rose on my arms; goose bumps followed.
—airmail.news, 18 May 2024
The triggering of goose bumps varies from person to person, of course.
—Jeremy Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2014
See All Example Sentences for goose bumps
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“Goose bumps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goose%20bumps. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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