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Recent Examples of goose bumps
After their opener, Maddie Musselman, twice a gold medalist, looked up into the crowd and felt goose bumps.
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Adam Kilgore, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
Birdy performed a version of one of her songs as a ballad, which built into a cascading sequence involving a looper pedal, that gave me goose bumps.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 22 July 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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Adam Kilgore, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
Birdy performed a version of one of her songs as a ballad, which built into a cascading sequence involving a looper pedal, that gave me goose bumps.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 22 July 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 13 Sep. 2025.
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