Use "prickly" in a sentence

1. Stands of prickly pear cactus dot the landscape

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2. John drives up to the gate, a cowboy-ish affair topped with an arch of three wagon wheels flanked by a saguaro cactus and a coyote on one side and a prickly pear bush on the other

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3. I turn and stare at the prickly bush filling the flowerbed under the lounge window … pyrocanthus? Is that what it is called? It’s got vicious, long thorns, that thing

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4. Initially she dismissed it, there were so many people around that it would be virtually impossible to detect someone following her … all the same, the prickly feeling in the back of her neck persisted and she started taking it seriously

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5. Rayne unexpectedly felt a prickly sensation on the back of her neck

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6. The ground stung her naked feet, with little prickly things

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7. enjoyed most-playing around with prickly professors,” he laughed

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8. Are you always so prickly in the morning?”

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9. Instead, I investigated a few of the prickly pods that had fallen from the chestnuts trees, smashing them the rest of the way open with my stick (I had learned that this was the best way to avoid getting poked) and, carefully, I removed a few big chestnuts, unfolded my knife, skinned the shell off, and crunched on them as I headed towards the raspberry patch

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10. Then there were the tortures of prickly heat to contend with, and a longing for a draught of water a few degrees below 90

11. After coming off second best in a patch of prickly pear, a cactus which is happily not common in the bush, I suddenly reached swampy ground again, while in places the trees cleared, opening out on large sticky patches of arundineous mud, which would have made a capital ground for sportsmen

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12. The grass was high and prickly, its tallest tips towering over Stelze�s neck

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13. As the triumphant bird made off through a flock of grazing sheep, it left behind two pairs of weakly waving legs stuck high in the prickly embrace of a hawthorn hedge

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14. A prickly feeling

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15. “What about these ones?” she said to her brother, striding tall and yet cautiously through the thick underbrush, with long, prickly, arching creepers tugging at her leggings

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16. She felt a prickly kind of tingle linger where his hand had touched

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17. There was a poisonous plant that also had huge leaves and stems, but the leaves were prickly and the stems had poisonous spines

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18. patches of prickly hair on his bald head had begun to surface

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19. Suzuki ran his hands over the patches of prickly hair on his bald head

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20. He waded through the smaller bushes to where the prickly

21. seriously prickly bushes at the back

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22. My skin felt prickly, but the sharp pain in my eyes was such that it swallowed up all else in its wake

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23. but only found a kind of prickly vegetation that became either

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24. squirming through the prickly forks of higher boughs, and then

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25. Moving around an area of prickly bushes he had been relieved to find one of the mounts that they had previously used that day

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26. escalated with prickly currents all through her, and she sat up a little

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27. With his prickly reputation, I wasn’t about to be late for the personal interview

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28. It had ears that stuck up in the air, huge blue eyes, and a tongue that was made of sharp prickly ivory razors

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29. pebbles that curved around the sandy borders of prickly red roses

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30. He couldn’t however get rid of the prickly feeling between his shoulder blades

31. What could he do about it? The prickly 40

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32. However, the day that George and Doris were killed in the car crash, I had that same prickly feeling quite strongly from about two hours before the time of the accident

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33. Relaxing down into the soft grass, shielded from view by several prickly gorse bushes and the camouflage suit, he had calculated that a late afternoon winter sun would be at his 10 o’clock and low, not enough for the keen observer to spot any glare from the scope but enough to highlight the primary target

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34. She declared that love would always bring pain equal or greater than the joy it brings, and now Lavia’s roses, while beautiful, are dangerous and prickly

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35. washed it for three weeks and then fallen in a prickly

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36. Prickly Pears are constantly crabby

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37. and the Prickly Pear will find something wrong with it

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38. Prickly Pears are oftentimes the most understood of the anger personalities

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39. He felt the prickly stubble of the tattered strands and the contours of the wound cords

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40. ‘Is it true, Sir Stanley, the speculation we’ve heard in the popular press, which suggested that Sir Richard was a rather prickly, distrustful, unpleasant personality? That he had a habit of 27

41. The squirmed out of the prickly branches that surrounded her before the mech launched another blast

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42. My prickly pair cactus bloomed every Fourth of July and it too proliferated and didn’t ever need watering

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43. I now carry! But to me this bitter, prickly Thistle is more savory and relishing than the most exquisite

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44. During the night the noise of the eastern sea slowly receded and as the morning star became visible I began to look for a place to lay up for the day, a stand of cactus came into sight in a small valley, I crawled under the first one and wriggled my way to the centre of the prickly plants, here I should be safe from everything except maybe scorpions or snakes but I have never had any fear of them, a healthy respect, but no fear

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45. Carla could have remained at Max’s bedside, but she had that prickly, edgy feeling that had so often, rightly warned of big trouble looming

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46. a prickly wariness at the humans and the new room

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47. It grew and spread, prickly, as if millions of tiny bubbles erupted and danced around in the lower frontal regions of his brain

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48. As far as we could see were scrubby pinion pines, amongst some juniper trees, with an occasional cedar mixed in, and everywhere between, the ever present prickly pear cacti

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49. Brambles and prickly bushes shredded my skin like a grater, but I was behond pain now

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50. crowded with strategically placed clumps of lechugilla and prickly pear

51. Despite their staggering size, the brown prickly needles that protruded from the surface were tiny, like fine hairs, almost giving the impression of a cactus having fur

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52. melon, juniper, andrographis, prickly ash, and centaury

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53. She felt the prickly sensation of being watched

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54. He yowled as pokey branches and prickly leaves scratched through his fur and clutched at his wriggling form as he fought to leverage himself free

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55. He pointed the way around a crop of prickly bushes

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56. His heart thumped and a prickly sensation crept over his shoulders

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57. The prickly sensation crawled from his shoulders and down his back

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58. She almost giggled realizing that there was no prickly stubbles above her lip like the men she had kissed

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59. ” I chuckled with strange happiness as that prickly voice itched to come out in full force

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60. He was sure that his stubble felt rough and prickly against her delicate skin

61. The back of my neck started to feel prickly

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62. When he ended that call Lawrence called Sir Kenneth Bell who had been prickly at the Home Affairs Select Committee hearing

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63. We share a prickly relationship with them

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64. The strange prickly sensation of pins and needles covered his entire body

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65. The plants scratch our faces, and we clutch at prickly branches; the cold water bites our ankles as our boots sink into the mud

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66. floor of the cavern was covered with scrub brush like you would see in Arizona, There were majestic cacti growing and in bloom with flowers, some of the plants resembled giant saguaros some prickly pear and many other nameless

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67. shrub with perennial roots and prickly canes

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68. His bare feet rubbed against the prickly green grass

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69. The prickly issue of these two additions

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70. the prickly question as to whether the young man would be useful anymore, in his present

71. ” Adi whispered registering my prickly condition

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72. Her throat felt prickly and dry

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73. Ingrid's legs were no doubt starting to get prickly as well

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74. „Ploughing the prickly field,' Roy said, laughing at his own cleverness and causing Captain

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75. Among the many pillows that adorned the venerable couch was one, hard, round, covered with prickly horsehair, and furnished with a knobby button at each end

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76. If she suspected this, she would have shut up tight, and been more prickly than ever, fortunately she wasn't thinking about herself, so when the time came, down she dropped

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77. the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery

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78. Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster,—all the delicacies, in fact, that are cast up by the wash of waters on the sandy beach, and styled by the grateful fishermen "fruits of the sea

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79. Cavorting around the Nautiluswas a school of triggerfish with flat bodies, grainy skins, armed with stings on their dorsal fins, and with four prickly rows of quills quivering on both sides of their tails

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80. Polyps and echinoderms abounded on the seafloor: various isis coral, cornularian coral living in isolation, tufts of virginal genus Oculina formerly known by the name "white coral," prickly fungus coral in the shape of mushrooms, sea anemone holding on by their muscular disks, providing a literal flowerbed adorned by jellyfish from the genus Porpita wearing collars of azure tentacles, and starfish that spangled the sand, including veinlike feather stars from the genus Asterophyton that were like fine lace embroidered by the hands of water nymphs, their festoons

81. Lavender thistles explode from fat prickly pods and pale pink wild roses tumble over rocky outcroppings

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82. From shoulder to shoulder he measured several ells and his rocklike mountainous knees were covered, as was likewise the rest of his body wherever visible, with a strong growth of tawny prickly hair in hue and toughness similar to the mountain gorse (Ulex Europeus)

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83. It was a version of myself I’d first tasted way back when I was a child of eleven and I’d felt that prickly rush of power when grown men would turn their heads to look at me or whistle or say Hey pretty baby just loudly enough that I could hear

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84. In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously, little Pearl paused to gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock which grew beside the tomb

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85. The child probably overheard their voices; for, looking up to the window, with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence, she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Reverend Mr

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86. When it had been fulled, Caris paid a finisher to draw off the loose threads with a teasel, the prickly head of a wild flower, and to repair small blemishes

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87. In private, he was often prickly and harsh with her

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88. Rainbow Waters might be more pragmatic than the majority of his peers, but he was still a Harchongese aristocrat which, by definition, meant proud, prickly, and deeply aware of his towering superiority to any non-Harchongian

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89. My brother has a prickly nature, and he has placed all his best hopes on Aerion since Daeron has been such a grave disappointment to him

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90. The boy is in a prickly mood today

91. He was freezing and remembered that’s what happened when you bled to death, you got cold, and then he realized it would be crazy not to be cold, him in his thin little Diondra jacket, his entire torso prickly with goosepimples

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92. It’s the rule of all potentially prickly interviews: Don’t go on the offense until you have to, first see if they’ll hang themselves all on their own

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93. I turned her into the brittle, prickly thing she became

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94. So tall were the spiny thickets that the hobbits could walk upright under them, passing through long dry aisles carpeted with a deep prickly mould

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