How to Use prickly in a Sentence

prickly

adjective

• The plant's leaves are prickly.
• 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
• That is, Pages stacked the deck in favour of the quirky, the prickly, the heroically uncommercial.
  — Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Both know each other’s triggers and Domont’s prickly screenplay has plenty of barbs that cut to the quick.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
• The Skalkottas was the earliest of the pieces, but also the prickliest in rhythms and tartest in dissonance.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
• The main downside is that the tester could feel some of the prickly down feathers through the cover, which was uncomfortable at times.
  — Erica Reagle, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2022
• But the film is too prickly in its depictions of the era to be accused of glossing over ugliness.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
• The desert setting is as prickly and vast and mutable as Watkins’s writing; the book is a stern kick to the groin of heroic tales about the majesty of the American West.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
• Crimes of the Future is the prickly, unusual evidence of that.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2022
• Cooper and a friend, farmhand Jen Beal, rushed to the site, but both quickly realized the task was a pricklier fight.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Feb. 2024
• Some plants can be prickly, so grab your gardening gloves and clippers.
  — Penelope O'Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
• Some are prickly with people and not ideal dogs around children.
  — Kyle Wintersteen, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
• Keep in Mind: Some of the down feathers poked through during testing, giving this pillow a prickly feel.
  — Erica Reagle, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2022
• Both Frank Cosgroves are alive, but seem to be in a prickly situation.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 19 Jan. 2022
• Kate’s stomach, already tense and prickly, did a little flip.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 4 Apr. 2022
• Union and Torres make the pair’s prickly exchanges arch if familiar fun.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 20 June 2023
• The lead guitar sounds less like a guitar than a bizarro dial tone — a round, rich, buzzing that Sohn spins into puckish, prickly riffs.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2022
• India has signed up to be a U.S. partner in Asia — but only a limited partner, and a prickly one at that.
  — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2022
• But Thibeault and Jonas said prickly attitudes and ego swirled within the group during season six.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 3 June 2022
• Some of it was more private, such as the bristling among players about prickly Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
• Like most prickly would-be tyrants, neither Donald Trump nor Vladimir Putin likes to be mocked publicly—and a lot of that was directed at them this week.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 30 June 2022
• The most common variety has the very pretty darkish purple skin, a white flesh with loads of seeds inside and a green stem that is a bit prickly.
  — Amisha Gurbani, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2022
• And that prompted a prickly question: After a sweeping search for the wealthy risktaker ended, who should foot the bill?
  — Adam Geller, Fortune, 26 June 2023
• Expansion has been a prickly subject there since the institute opened in the early 1960s.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024