PRICKLY in a Sentence
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76 example sentences for PRICKLY, such as:
1. His skin felt painful and prickly.
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 PRICKLY
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prickly
a. very irritable
a. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1 The moss-green velvet curtains felt prickly and soft beneath her cheek and she rubbed her face against them gratefully, like a cat.
2 The grass beside the railroad had been burnt over; it was a smudge prickly with charred stalks of weeds.
3 Only this thin hedge shut them off from the plains-shorn wheat-lands of autumn, a hundred acres to a field, prickly and gray near-by but in the blurred distance like tawny velvet stretched over dipping hillocks.
4 The earth was lumpy, the stubble prickly and lined with grass, thistles, abortive stumps of clover.
5 It was prickly hot, yet the town was barren under the bleak sky.
6 The thick grass beside the track, coarse and prickly with many burnings, hid canary-yellow buttercups and the mauve petals and woolly sage-green coats of the pasque flowers.
7 Among the many pillows that adorned the venerable couch was one, hard, round, covered with prickly horsehair, and furnished with a knobby button at each end.
8 You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it.
9 If she suspected this, she would have shut up tight, and been more prickly than ever, fortunately she wasn't thinking about herself, so when the time came, down she dropped.
10 In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously, little Pearl paused to gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock which grew beside the tomb.
11 The child probably overheard their voices, for, looking up to the window with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence, she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Rev.
12 He led her through the wall of prickly trees, that were difficult to come through, to a place where was a little space and a pile of dead boughs.
13 When she began to extricate herself it was by turning round and round, and so unwinding the prickly switch.
14 Here and there a star pricked through, showing behind it a deep well of blue.
15 The sight of the MacIntosh house had pricked the last bubble of hope remaining to her.
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 The hedgehog curled up in a prickly ball.
2 Chestnuts had burst out of their prickly green husks.
3 The bunk mattress was hard, the blankets prickly and slightly damp.
4 The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
5 The issue is likely to prove a prickly one.
6 His skin felt painful and prickly.
7 In consequence, he became prickly and spiteful.
8 The general who led the military takeover of Thailand is known as an ardent defender of the monarchy, an adversary of the former prime minister at the center of the nation's political crisis, and a prickly personality prone to snap at unwanted questions.
9 You have heen pricked down for the next turn.
10 He certainly pricked up his ears when you told him about your good luck.
11 She pricked out the design from the pattern.
12 She screamed out when she pricked her finger on a thorn.
13 She pricked her finger on/with a needle.
14 She pricked herself when passing a thread through the hole of a needle.
15 Each boy pricked the ball of his thumb and squeezed out a drop of blood.