PRICK in a Sentence
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76 example sentences for PRICK, such as:
1. I gave my finger a prick with a needle.
2. She pricked her finger on/with a needle.
3. The hedgehog curled up in a prickly ball.
4. The issue is likely to prove a prickly one.
5. She pricked out the design from the pattern.
2. She pricked her finger on/with a needle.
3. The hedgehog curled up in a prickly ball.
4. The issue is likely to prove a prickly one.
5. She pricked out the design from the pattern.
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Meanings and Examples of PRICK
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prick
v. make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
n. insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1 It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near by made Gerald prick up his ears.
2 At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the object of his resentment.
3 "Very interesting reading it might be made, too," remarked Sherlock Holmes, sticking a small piece of plaster over the prick on his finger.
4 So spirited a creature would have certainly roused the soundest of sleepers when it felt the prick of the knife.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
Context Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
5 His intellectual gifts, his moral perceptions, his power of experiencing and communicating emotion, were kept in a state of preternatural activity by the prick and anguish of his daily life.
6 I trust her feeling ill may not be from that unlucky prick of the safety-pin.
7 When Pierre reached the fire and heard Platon's voice enfeebled by illness, and saw his pathetic face brightly lit up by the blaze, he felt a painful prick at his heart.
8 Here and there a star pricked through, showing behind it a deep well of blue.
9 The sight of the MacIntosh house had pricked the last bubble of hope remaining to her.
10 She looked at Archie's gnarled old hands, his two pistols and his knife, and fear pricked her again.
11 About Archie's face there was an alert waiting look and his tufted, hairy old ears seemed pricked up like a lynx's.
12 I pricked up my ears, for it was positively the first time I had ever heard a foreign tongue.
13 Later he came upon a general of division seated upon a horse that pricked its ears in an interested way at the battle.
14 He was not furious at small words that pricked his conceits.
15 So Tom unwound the thread from one of his needles, and each boy pricked the ball of his thumb and squeezed out a drop of blood.
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 I gave my finger a prick with a needle.
2 The needle left a prick in the tailor's finger.
3 He at once took a pin from his lapel and was going to prick his flesh, but Tom said: "Hold on! Don't do that."
4 You have heen pricked down for the next turn.
5 He certainly pricked up his ears when you told him about your good luck.
6 She pricked out the design from the pattern.
7 She screamed out when she pricked her finger on a thorn.
8 She pricked her finger on/with a needle.
9 She pricked herself when passing a thread through the hole of a needle.
10 Each boy pricked the ball of his thumb and squeezed out a drop of blood.
11 The hedgehog curled up in a prickly ball.
12 Chestnuts had burst out of their prickly green husks.
13 The bunk mattress was hard, the blankets prickly and slightly damp.
14 The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
15 The issue is likely to prove a prickly one.