How to Use prickly in a Sentence

prickly

adjective

• The plant's leaves are prickly.
• What can the rest of us learn from the prickly people in the world?
  — Suzy Exposito, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2024
• Heat tends to make the rash much worse and the skin starts to become prickly.
  — Jacqueline Andriakos, SELF, 14 May 2018
• The raw meat, the subtle fat, the prickly acidities of the sauce, the pure flavor.
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2020
• There are less prickly pieces of loose fur to stick to your clothes.
  — Lauren Palmer, Curbed, 15 June 2018
• The big cat was perched on a tall, prickly cactus, but didn't seem to mind the spikes.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 19 June 2018
• To start your prep, the first tool to grab is a pair of kitchen shears, which makes snipping the prickly tips of the leaves a breeze.
  — Claire Perez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• And although Ames forges the story’s premise, prickly, funny Reese is the star of the show.
  — Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2021
• Spruce needles also can be stiff and prickly to the touch.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Look, read the labels, mull over the prickly unanswered questions many of the pieces leave you with.
  — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• Gin: The gin’s role here is to add some prickly juniper on the finish, so get one that has a lot of that.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 24 June 2023
• My hair stood on end, and prickly sweat savaged my cheeks.
  — Erik Hedegaard, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2021
• That is, Pages stacked the deck in favour of the quirky, the prickly, the heroically uncommercial.
  — Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
• Up close, the harpsichord can be a wild, prickly beast.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• Put on a pair of gloves to protect your hands from prickly tree branches.
  — Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2024
• Big yellow orbs still cling to a prickly maze of vines that has mostly died.
  — Tess Taylor, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
• Rocks, a sparse clumping of tall grass, prickly things like cacti, and Joshua Trees as far as the eye can see.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Electric blues, reds and purples of prickly urchins, sea stars and an anemones.
  — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
• But Joe is a relief — funny, prickly, human — and the film could use more of him.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• Days later, hair would appear in his armpits again, tiny and prickly, like the heads of toothpicks in a jar.
  — Hurmat Kazmi, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• Stop at the Cholla Cactus Garden and walk along its paths, but don't get too close to the prickly plants.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
• Now 2 weeks old, zoo staff said the prickly little one is doing well.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2022
• High will demonstrate how to care for, gather and cook prickly pears.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• Then in 2016, in a show of deference to the prickly Persians, Xi went to Tehran to cement the alliance.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• This has made the business of documenting the singer’s life a prickly one.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
• The player known for a sometimes prickly attitude may have even won a few fans over in the process.
  — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
• This prickly beast is not a plant for hot, humid regions.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
• Mari's own sense of guilt was what fueled a lot of what people perceived as prickly in her.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 16 Mar. 2020
• Here are some of the prettiest flowers peeking out from the prickly spines this spring.
  — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020
• In nature, most seed dispersal techniques are due to external factors – wind, animals, fire, gravity – but this remarkable little prickly go-getter native to the Mediterranean has found its own way of getting the job done.
  — New Atlas, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025