How To Use prick up In A Sentence
- The hairs on the back of your neck prick up at the mere mention of the word, don't they?
- It is a well-known fact that when one's ears prick up at night and find the slightest noise an obstacle to slumber, after much tossing and turning, and some imprecating, tired Nature will finally succumb from sheer exhaustion: she even conquers the howling of dogs holding converse with the moon and the cater-wauling of enamored cats. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
- Students of the theatre may prick up their ears at the name of Baron Booth.
- All the time, distant sirens that would normally be blocked out of cognizance made heads turn and ears prick up.
- Sitting in the car on a wet afternoon, I felt the hairs prick up on the back of my neck.
- And the Ancient Near Eastern listener would prick up their ears: I thought I knew this story.
