Example Sentences

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He takes all this and runs with it, producing a taut, goose-pimply thriller that earns its jump-out-of-your-seat moments and only occasionally strains its own logic - and then, who really cares?

From Washington Times • Apr. 2, 2018

"It makes me feel goose-pimply all over… I don't know where I am or who I am, or what I'm doing."

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2015

The second episode actually ends on a transcendent, goose-pimply musical note, even though the word being intoned by the chorus is, um, “um.”

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2013

I get goose-pimply all over, and I come to ’em.”

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2011

In the hurry of daily newspaper work and the press of matter upon our pages, very likely we are fatally brief, and sacrifice rhetorical beauty to naked and goose-pimply facts.

From Remarks by Nye, Bill