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How to use pricking in a sentence

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Cats and dogs also demonstrated their natural hunting instincts pricking up their ears when cats, mice and budgies came on the screen.
I put down my music, eyes pricking and throat closing up with anxiety, rage, confusion and embarrassment.
Seeds sown in February that have germinated and formed their first true leaves will need pricking out into small pots.
At the moment I'm still pricking out, but my back garden is already full of flowers.
Alternatively, collect ripe seed and sow in trays in a cold frame pricking them out when big enough.
The young man lay on his bare back, feeling the needles pricking his skin and listening to the sound of the tattoo instrument.
Nonetheless, it still bothered him in the back of his mind, pricking at him like an annoying and persistent mosquito, which just wouldn't let up.
If you believe the selldown in technology shares is due exclusively to the pricking of the dotcom bubble, think again.
She saw herself chained to a coarse wooden pole, the straw on the floor pricking her legs as she kneeled, head bowed submissively.
The flesh steams inside the potato's skin, and pricking it before putting it into the oven allows some of this steam to escape.
Mrs Harris said while one villager was gardening he narrowly missed pricking his finger on a needle thrown in his hedge.
He lathered up in the shower, the water pricking and pounding down on his skin.
Slowly, she could feel an extraordinary force of power behind her, as if pricking on her skin to taunt her.
Blotchy foot skin then develops with swelling, numbness, tingling, pricking or a wooden feeling in the feet.
She felt tears pricking her eyes, and realized they had been there since she had touched his face.
Shivering, I started to hum the song my mother used to sing to me, tears pricking my eyes.
I guess it means that we should keep pricking away at him but make no serious effort to get him to resign or step down.
The coriander seedlings have fast outstripped everything else and have their first true leaves and need pricking out any time now.
She said they are busy all year, growing from seeds, pricking out the plants and growing vegetables in the greenhouse.
A yeomanly tear was pricking at the corner of my eye as I stepped out across a small junction and was nearly mown down by a scooter.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was accompanied by pyrexia, gastro-enteritis, deep-seated pains in limbs and body, and burning and pricking of the skin.
When other powers are lacking, the power of pricking seems to be at its sharpest.
Several writers claim good results with glycerole of papain, pricking it in in the same manner as in tattooing.
The pricking of the needle may carry in epithelium and implantation dermoids may arise.
The borzois jumped up, jerking the rings of the leashes and pricking their ears.
On one occasion six excellent specimens were obtained in a single drop of blood by merely pricking the lobule of the ear.
Bring corners of the dough to the top of the apples and seal by pricking with a fork.
He had him by the ear and was pricking him with his sabre in the fleshy parts.
He sunk back in his chair, with his hands all thrilling and pricking to the finger-tips.
The heralds left their pricking up and down, Now ringen trumpets loud and clarion.
For what shall I look for among thorns, but pricking and scratching?
Then came the pricking of ten thousand tiny needles in his limbs.
Bake crust on the outside of pan, first pricking with a fork.
The storm had ceased and the stars were pricking through the blue.
He then stopped as though waiting for my reply, pricking up his antennae-like ears and cocking his strange-looking eyes still further toward me.
D'Artagnan took the soldier's arquebus, made him go on before him, and urged him toward his companion by pricking him behind with his sword.
None of them ever did complain of any thing more than a slight pricking sensation in places where their skin was abraded, and then only for a short time.
It was about eleven o'clock when Ned Land drew my attention to a formidable pricking, like the sting of an ant, which was produced by means of large seaweeds.
And as he rolled, and felt sharp teeth pricking him, he snapped and snarled, alternating snarls with whimperings and squallings of terror, pain, and abject humility.
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