PRICK in a Sentence

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76 example sentences for PRICK, such as:

1. I gave my finger a prick with a needle.
2. She pricked her finger on/with a needle.
3. The hedgehog curled up in a prickly ball.
4. The issue is likely to prove a prickly one.
5. She pricked out the design from the pattern.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRICK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
prick
 v.  penetrate or puncture by a sharp and slender thing
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near by made Gerald prick up his ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the object of his resentment.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
3  "Very interesting reading it might be made, too," remarked Sherlock Holmes, sticking a small piece of plaster over the prick on his finger.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
4  So spirited a creature would have certainly roused the soundest of sleepers when it felt the prick of the knife.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
5  His intellectual gifts, his moral perceptions, his power of experiencing and communicating emotion, were kept in a state of preternatural activity by the prick and anguish of his daily life.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
6  I trust her feeling ill may not be from that unlucky prick of the safety-pin.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  When Pierre reached the fire and heard Platon's voice enfeebled by illness, and saw his pathetic face brightly lit up by the blaze, he felt a painful prick at his heart.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIII
8  Here and there a star pricked through, showing behind it a deep well of blue.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
9  The sight of the MacIntosh house had pricked the last bubble of hope remaining to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  She looked at Archie's gnarled old hands, his two pistols and his knife, and fear pricked her again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
11  About Archie's face there was an alert waiting look and his tufted, hairy old ears seemed pricked up like a lynx's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
12  I pricked up my ears, for it was positively the first time I had ever heard a foreign tongue.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
13  Later he came upon a general of division seated upon a horse that pricked its ears in an interested way at the battle.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  He was not furious at small words that pricked his conceits.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
15  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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  I gave my finger a prick with a needle.
2  The needle left a prick in the tailor's finger.
3  He at once took a pin from his lapel and was going to prick his flesh, but Tom said: "Hold on! Don't do that."
4  You have heen pricked down for the next turn.
5  He certainly pricked up his ears when you told him about your good luck.
6  She pricked out the design from the pattern.
7  She screamed out when she pricked her finger on a thorn.
8  She pricked her finger on/with a needle.
9  She pricked herself when passing a thread through the hole of a needle.
10  Each boy pricked the ball of his thumb and squeezed out a drop of blood.
11  The hedgehog curled up in a prickly ball.
12  Chestnuts had burst out of their prickly green husks.
13  The bunk mattress was hard, the blankets prickly and slightly damp.
14  The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
15  The issue is likely to prove a prickly one.