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    Use "prickly" in a sentence

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    prickly


    1. Stands of prickly pear cactus dot the landscape


    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


    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


    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


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


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


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


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


    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


    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


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


    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


    14. A prickly feeling


    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


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


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


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


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


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

    21. seriously prickly bushes at the back


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


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


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


    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


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


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


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


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


    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


    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


    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


    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


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


    36. Prickly Pears are constantly crabby


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


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


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


    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


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


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


    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


    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


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


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


    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


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


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









































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    Synonyms for "prickly"

    barbed barbellate briary briery bristled bristly burred burry prickly setaceous setose spiny thorny splenetic waspish spiked peaked sharp

    "prickly" definitions

    very irritable


    having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.