Example Sentences
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Was it “Chimeras,” the electronic musician guessed by phone before a recent Berlin performance, selecting a 2006 piece where prickles of electric guitar scatter like a galaxy around a lulling beat?
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
Just beware of prickles if you have children or pets.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2022
“In my mind’s eye, my father is always in a scruffy brown wool bathrobe; my cheek still prickles at the memory of his scratchy morning hugs,” she writes.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2018
To get it, you have to reach past the prickles.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2014
My skin prickles in real life knowing that Zero is watching this game right now, perhaps watching it in the same way that I am.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
