Synonyms

1. prick

Sentence Examples

1. All this was a spur to her, pricking her to retaliation.
2. The two wrestled, and Robert tried pricking him with a pointed Sleeping Thistle.
3. He could feel the pricking and stinging of the old anger as it strove to rise up in him, but it strove against love.
4. I had felt this same pricking of warning two moons earlier when a lion stalked the flock in the early morning.
5. Something crept up her neck and crawled behind her eyes with pricking insect legs.
6. It was sure to be brought plain by one of those arrows which cloud the air and are constantly pricking, discovering, proclaiming those things which are willed to be forever hidden.
7. He then caused all the duennas of the palace, those that are here present, to be brought before him and after having dwelt upon the enormity of our offence, and denounced duennas, their characters, their evil ways and worse intrigues, laying to the charge of all what I alone was guilty of, he said he would not visit us with capital punishment, but with others of a slow nature which would be in effect civil death for ever and the very instant he ceased speaking we all felt the pores of our faces opening, and pricking us, as if with the points of needles.
8. In spite of himself and all the pricking warnings of his instinct, White Fang began to have confidence in this god.