prick
noun
a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
are pricking
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present progressiveof prick.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Then I feel like many tiny pins are pricking my skin.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
"Oh, dear, dear! how the thorn-needles are pricking my fingers!" gasped Nelly.
From The Crown of Success by A. L. O. E.
"We'll go in," he said, "but man, man, how my old scars are pricking!"
From Ronicky Doone by Max Brand
Here, in Rome, he is reported to have said, “In order to recover two fractions of the States of the Church, they are pricking on to a war against the world—but they will lose all.”
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
Our Abbaye is like to be a gallant ceremony, for divers gentlemen of name are in the town, and I hear of more that are pricking forward among the mountains from countries beyond the Rhine.
From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper
