Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with prickles.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prickle .
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Examples
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We rode the elevator with a junior lieutenant whose skin prickled at the sound of my respirator.
Archive 2005-05-08 2005
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We rode the elevator with a junior lieutenant whose skin prickled at the sound of my respirator.
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His skin prickled, as if with an electric current, for hot rage ate into his soul.
Purple Springs 1921
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Even as she spoke, the hair at the nape of my neck prickled; she was calling the ley again.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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The hair on the nape of my neck prickled as she called to that ley energy and a pulse answered her.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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It prickled over my flesh with the delicate brutality of thorns, delicious and sinful and utterly him.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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A flush prickled over my cheeks as he raised a brow.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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To her horror, her throat tightened and her eyes prickled with the threat of oncoming tears.
Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011
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They cooked his favorite meals, they read him stories, they brought him tunas, the succulent cactus fruit encased in a prickled dark purple husk that had to be opened very carefully and expertly.
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I sat there and my blood prickled like pine straw in my veins, in my heart.
Where You Lay Your Dreams Sterling McKennedy 2011
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