Example Sentences

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That last sentence has pricked the ears of the cyber-security world.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2022

In the weeks leading up to the wedding, she has pricked her ears to the media coverage, bristling at any criticism of Ms. Markle, including of her clothing.

From New York Times • May 12, 2018

More than any other our own age has pricked the vain bubble of purely outward greatness.

From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise

If we do not coerce circumstances to carry us on the course which conscience has pricked out on the chart, they will wreck us.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander

See!" she cried, "a cruel thorn has pricked me.

From The Flower Princess The Flower Princess; The Little Friend; The Mermaid's Child; The Ten Blowers by Brown, Abbie Farwell