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Sentence Examples With a sewing needle from her bedside table, Marylyn pricked her finger and squeezed it until two drops of blood fell onto the sheets. Selwyn looked at her quizzically, his head tipped to one side and his large ears pricked forward as he watched. Her skin pricked with excitement and anticipation, sweat trickled from her pores, and her blood rushed torrentially throughout her veins. Blair's ears pricked at the sound of soft footfalls echoing in the distance. A police sergeant has undergone hospital tests after his hand was pricked with a used syringe during a drugs raid. It swells considerably and has to be pricked with a needle to release the internal pressure and avoid bursting. Within the first 2 or 3 days of life, your baby's heel will be pricked and a small sample of her blood will then be applied to a filter paper. Muttering to myself about the size of my purse, I pricked myself on a mechanical pencil tip. Fee jammed her finger into a small hole, wincing as a needle pricked it, and a drop of blood fell on the DNA scanner. A needle pricked her arm and Diana felt her blood gushing into the little tube that was attached to the sharp needle. Oliver took out a needle and pricked his index finger and squeezed a drop of blood onto an empty slide. People pricked by errant needles can get specialized treatment at the Post Exposition Centre of the St-Luc Hospital. Tears pricked Melissa's eyes at the scorn in Marsey's voice and for a moment she looked as if she would crumble. By the time Lydia had earned her breakfast, her delicate hands were red and stinging, and tears pricked her eyes as she bathed them. Tears pricked her eyes, her cheeks looked flushed, and she hung up the phone without another word. His political conscience is pricked into life by his friendship with black school caretaker Gordon. There is a happy ending, however, as Zigby, pricked by a guilty conscience, builds the friendly ants a new home out of mud. Her conscience pricked as she took one of the seats near the very back corner. Even with her interest pricked, it was more by luck than design that she eventually found herself at drama college. Dr. Nair wheedled, and often pricked, the group to bring out their concerns and knowledge about the needs and demands of adolescence. Show More Sentences He wasn't going to tell us, but now it seems he has been pricked into action. They were only pricked into action in the last 15 minutes after struggling Walsall had gone ahead with a lovely move. Nearby stood the two deer-creatures, ears pricked, watching with curiosity rather than alarm. Whilst I was doing this, my Mother said she heard a voice calling something, and the dog's ears pricked up. Demon picked his head up and pricked his ears forward as he watched the other stallion moving away. The lad was in despair, but when the cat heard this, he pricked up his ears. At hearing their names the horses pricked up their ears and looked at Umanac who held out a cube of sugar each in his palms. Our dog Bruno, who was lying beside the bed pricked up his ears and I looked towards the porch door. Getting thoroughly interested in this tale, the eavesdropper had pricked up his ears a little more. Voices drifted out from the trailer and I pricked up my ears in spite of myself. The pattern has been pricked out with a point before the color was laid on. In his hand that had not been crushed, he gripped the jagged shard of glass even while it pricked him and drew more red liquid. The conscience always is pricked to some degree in the presence of the pure expression of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. The knives pricked my skin and I woke with my cat asleep against me, embracing me, her claws dimpling my skin. His ears pricked, trying to identify the sound which had cut even through the grumble of the surf, and then he blinked in disbelief. The horse pricked its ears and let loose a shrill whinny, trotting to Robyn. She looked back to her horse, whose ears were pricked forward in anticipation. Cook until Jerusalem artichokes are soft when pricked with a knife, about 10 minutes. As his muzzle touched the water, his tongue lapped at it, his ears pricked up, and his eyes opened weakly. Milo's steed, a roan stallion with a flaxen mane and tail, looked at her with ears pricked up. Show More Sentences There was a wolf sitting on the gleaming linoleum outside the office, head cocked, ears pricked. With ears pricked, eyes were focused just two days later for Minstermen watchers of BBC's less sedate They Think It's All Over. A pattern is pricked out by pins on the pillow to guide the worker. It pricked many a conscience, a reminder of how we missed Peter's advice. He then pricked this tracing through with a pin, following the standard workshop technique for transferring working drawings or cartoons to canvases. Today I've planted a tray each of curly parsley, plain parsley and chive seeds and pricked out all the rudbekia and most of the Viola seedlings into modules. Jordan spoke quietly, but everyone pricked up their ears to listen. Chino's nostrils flared, her ears pricked and her step got springy. As actual practice can demonstrate, if a pricked design is pounced from its verso, the pounce marks register more distinctly, than if pounced from the recto. The parents of a youngster who pricked his finger on a hypodermic needle in a park face an agonising wait to find out if he has caught any diseases. The three horses tied out front pricked their ears, giving a start. Two weeks before, she had pricked her index finger on a thorny cactus. Her conscience pricked her every time she thought of how mad she had gotten at Kirby before The Christmas Concert and had nearly deserted her friend. Babies have their heels pricked after they are born to perform a test. William listened and pricked up his ears when Mr. Irwin suggested that they should not waste their time on board the Norwood but keep their minds active. His neck is always craned, ears pricked, waiting for cymbal splash of Art happening. He grabbed a needle-like object and pricked a hole in the tool. He nodded curtly to the noble, and then shouted the command to remount, which they did, the horses tossing their heads, ears pricked in excitement. Taking the lead as the field straightened for home, Pegasus charged down the middle of the stretch with his ears pricked, signally he still had plenty left. They had been being standing in Gayle's sitting room for nearly six hours, being continuously measured and pricked by pins and needles for clothes to be worn tomorrow. Show More Sentences The pain in her lip increased and a sudden sharp pain pricked at her gums. Vegetable seedlings pricked out a few weeks ago will be getting stronger now, so consider standing the trays outside the greenhouse by day to harden them off. They will need exactly the same care as those done at home so limit how many are bought, bearing in mind they will need warmth and good light when they have been pricked out. She claimed that she was under attack by invisible tormentors who pinched her, pricked her with pins, and spoke of women who assumed the shape of cats. I pricked my ears and overheard the woman with the boofy hair talking. Sigmund Freud's theories have been punctured and pricked with doubt, but anyone who argues that he should be dropped from the canon of Western civilization needs therapy. His conscience pricked him as he cleaned and dressed himself. We saw no-marks humiliated, egos pricked, divas exposed and two funny Geordies shafting them with their wit. When my eldest, Jordan, was one I overheard a friend talking about surrogacy and my ears pricked up. The video would show either just the hand, the hand being pricked by a needle or being poked with a cotton bud. He pricked a finger. Every rose has a thorn. Isabella is a rose. Her father is a thorn. The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars. If the walls are rough or uneven, they should be first pricked up, and then floated. He made a sound, a snort from his nostrils. I pricked up my ears. He did it a second time. I was astonished. Prusten? And when by hard wringing them the blood appeared at their ends, they pricked them with some sharp point, and then mutually entersuck't each one the others. Holes were pricked through each gathering of eight leaves, and then individual pages were separately ruled for writing with a sharp, dry, and discreet point. They spide a knight, that towards pricked faire, And him beside an aged Squire there rode, He them espying, gan himselfe prepare, And on his arme address his goodly shield. Examples from Classical Literature Both ladies laughed, and Lizarann pricked her finger badly, and it redded all over the 'emstitch. He was answered with a rude shout of derision, and poor croppie was pricked with the sword's point to turn her away. Reason they didnt do it, it was blabbed, and the excise pricked up its ears. It was as if ice needles pricked his skin through his beautiful thick fur, but he never faltered and never once cried. The very danger and lustfulness of her, which had so pricked his senses, now made him colder. The costumery's good occupational therapy for me, too, as my pricked and calloused fingertips testify. Some of them tattoo the breast and arms in patterns of straight and curved lines pricked in with a needle in indigo blue. My sugar-plum and stewed-prune lady, whose fine sharp nose, like Cupid's darts, hath pricked me to the heart! They pricked him with the javelins, shook the red banners in his face, and fizzed the pyrotechnics before his eyes. Grim had then to go where flags and knotgrass pricked tiny, almost invisible holes in the ice. In plucking them they pricked their fingers with the sharp points, but the fruit was luscious. A busy bee had momentarily alighted there, and, before leaving, the bee had pricked the tough hide of the half-breed. If Godwin had pricked men's consciences, Malthus brought the balm. I pricked up my ears, for it was positively the first time I had ever heard a foreign tongue. She was too thick-skinned to be pricked by Louise's repudiation. My hands were shaking as I took a sterile slide and pricked my finger. When bighorn gave the signal the sentinels pricked up their ears. The black rat sat back on his haunches, pricked up his ears, and listened. We got within a hundred yards of the deer when he suddenly raised his antlered head and pricked up his great ears. On the contrary, he pricked them forward in a comically aggressive manner. Show More Sentences Hathi had been plucking off the roofs of the huts as you pluck water-lilies, and a rebounding beam had pricked him. Chapin pricked up his ears, anxious to run anywhere from the streets on which quick men, something of his kidney, did the business denied to him. He surprised the people at the Dogs' Home in Battersea by demanding a deaf retriever, and rejecting every candidate that pricked up its ears. He felt happier now that he had pricked the egregious fellow's vanity. Mrs. Vint had pricked his conscience, but she had wounded his foible. But the spur, though it pricked, did not goad him into any action. Dan'l pricked up one ear, then a hoof, and slowly got under way. The coachman looked back and the guard looked back, and even the emphatic leader pricked up his ears and looked back, without contradicting. He gave me the phial and a pin, and I pricked the wax, and to lo! But M'Iver fixed him with an eye that pricked like a rapier. I pricked up my ears, then, and held my breath, for this was the sort of thing I had been waiting for. So Tom unwound the thread from one of his needles, and each boy pricked the ball of his thumb and squeezed out a drop of blood. The day was fading into a soft sun-shot haze, pricked here and there by a yellow electric light, and passers were rare in the little square into which they had turned. Seeds get lost, seedlings are not pricked out in time, places already sown are planted with something else, and there is confusion out of doors and despair in my heart. The secret was, that an individual of his temper can always be pricked more acutely through his sense of the beautiful and harmonious than through his heart. He was not furious at small words that pricked his conceits. But Soothness pricked on his palfrey and passed them all and came to the King's court, where he told Conscience all about the matter, and Conscience told the King. He pricked his ears and listened to the trit-trot, trit-trot of a pony. How I pinched and pricked myself, and rubbed my eyes, and stood up, and sat down again, and nudged Joseph to inform me if he would EVER have done. And by and by she took a needle from her girdle and pricked the thoughts on the leaves of the trees and sent them into the air to float hither and thither. Find more words! 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