Example Sentences

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She feels like someone has been pricking a voodoo doll made in her image.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2016

My conscience has been pricking me, and I feel I have been very rude.

From Hard Pressed by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)

I expect her conscience has been pricking her.

From A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls by Meade, L. T.

I couldn't let you go until I had said something that is on my mind—something that has been pricking my conscience all evening.

From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Hanshew, Thomas W.