Example Sentences

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Wald carefully lays out the path to Newport, and his readers will itch with yearning as they wait to find out what really happened that night.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2015

But if it blunts it cannot spoil a film that will itch on the memory.

From Time Magazine Archive

You could try a variation of this test by saying your nose or one of your toes will itch at a specific count.

From A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Powers, Melvin

Queer how the flea-bite o' travel will itch!

From Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. by Duncan, Norman

It is literally true that the tongue will itch with a desire to tell a secret.

From Kept in the Dark by Trollope, Anthony