pricking

How To Use pricking In A Sentence

• It seemed incredible, yet it was true; it was proved to be so to me by his pricking his ears and his attentive look at the mention of the word prepossessing him in relation to the money: Government. The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8
• Many sufferers complain the daily pricking of their fingers is more painful than having an injection due to the mass of nerve endings at their fingertips.
• He felt a pricking sensation in his throat.
• One vacation she was given a holiday job in the palace gardens, pricking out marigolds.
• He felt tears pricking his eyes again, and brushed them away.
• Harris and Snelling were placed under keepers, who amused themselves by tormenting their unhappy prisoners in various ways; such as pricking them with their knives, cutting off small pieces of their ears and fingers, and pulling out clumps of their hair. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
• I take great pleasure in pricking each berry with a needle in several places then dropping them into a bottle with sugar and gin, but others like to freeze the sloes in a plastic bag then bash them hard with a hammer or rolling pin. Nigel Slater's classic sloe gin recipe
• All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels. Set in Silver
• Each leaf or folio has two pages and these were normally marked out for the text and any illumination by a process of pricking and ruling using a variety of instruments.
• I could feel tears pricking the corners of my eyes, threatening to spill out again.