How to Use prick in a Sentence

prick

verb

• The sharp shells pricked the bottoms of our feet.
• The nurse pricked my finger and squeezed out a drop of blood.
• She was pricked by doubt.
• Open the lancet and press it into the tip of your finger along the side (pricking the pad can hurt more).
  — Gary Gilles, Verywell Health, 18 Dec. 2023
• The river water splashed our faces, the droplets like needles pricking the skin.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Tears pricked my eyes as my three-year-old, grinning, held out a piece of paper.
  — Cesca Major, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2023
• Those tiny steam vents created by the fork pricks help the steam move through the potato evenly.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2023
• Carefully grasp the fish across the body behind the head with your thumb and fingers to avoid getting pricked.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• In a cool pine forest, our horses pricked their ears and flicked their tails, filtered light strobing the path before us.
  — Catherine Buni, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2023
• Then recently a friend mentioned their new Orbi and our ears pricked.
  — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 15 May 2023
• The needle pricks the trigger point but is not left inserted for any duration.
  — Brittany Ferri, Verywell Health, 17 Apr. 2023
• The main symptoms include swelling, redness, and tugging or pricking at the incision site.
  — Health, 1 Mar. 2023
• Her commitment to the mission pricked his pride, however.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• One of them pricked my eyeballs with a sharp instrument, allowing the ocular fluid that had built up to drain.
  — Bernard J. Wolfson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• From pricking our finger to setting the paper collection cards with blood samples aside to dry, the whole thing took under 10 minutes.
  — Lindsay Modglin, Health, 1 Sep. 2023
• Add 1 tortilla to skillet and cook, pricking with fork to gently deflate if tortilla puffs up, until slightly charred in spots, 45 seconds to 1 minute per side (the first one may take longer to cook).
  — Joy Cho, Good Housekeeping, 17 Apr. 2023
• All three also involve pricking your finger at home and collecting a blood sample on a specific day of your cycle.
  — Ally Hirschlag, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2023
• There is plenty of piercing and pecking and pricking in the witchcraft testimony, as there were plenty of knees soldered together and chests thrust skyward.
  — Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
• On another piece of paper under my door came my personalized wellness plan for the week, which laid out all the ways in which I’d be prodded, poked, primped, and pricked (yes, there’s an in-house acupuncture specialist) over the coming week.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2023
• However, there are a few downsides to consider: First, the test entails pricking your finger and using the resulting blood drops to fill a total of 24 circles printed on the collection pads.
  — Lindsay Modglin, Health, 1 Sep. 2023
• Each placement created a small pricking sensation with the pain quickly subsiding.
  — Amy Wilkinson, Women's Health, 12 July 2023
• The current gold standard test—only conducted in specialized allergy clinics—involves pricking the skin and injecting a small amount of penicillin.
  — Andrew Chapman, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2023
• In our bodies, this stress reaction can play out the moment we’re called upon at work to give a presentation, or perhaps during a nerve-racking first date: sweaty palms, bowel discomfort, the sensation of pins and needles pricking the skin.
  — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
• This monitor, the Abbott FreeStyle Libre 2 system, allows those with diabetes to get near instant blood sugar readings without pricking their fingers daily.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 11 Mar. 2023
• The sharp shells pricked the bottoms of our feet.
• The nurse pricked my finger and squeezed out a drop of blood.
• She was pricked by doubt.
• Open the lancet and press it into the tip of your finger along the side (pricking the pad can hurt more).
  — Gary Gilles, Verywell Health, 18 Dec. 2023
• The river water splashed our faces, the droplets like needles pricking the skin.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Tears pricked my eyes as my three-year-old, grinning, held out a piece of paper.
  — Cesca Major, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024