“When thick hair follicles are removed from the grain of the leather, they can leave a hole the size of a pin prick on the surface.”

“I might be persuaded that it is so had I never tasted sugar or salt, never smelt a rose or hemlock, or never felt spring warmth or the prick of a needle.”

“Caroline felt a prick at the back of her neck and swatted at whatever bug had bitten her.”

“A prickle caught my T-shirt and I pulled the shirt off the prickle and crawled.”

“The passage's haughty assurance raised a prickle of annoyance in Jeremiah.”

“Some of his prickliness was an expression of offended authority, but much of it also had to do with his own quick temper.”

“Numerous studies have shown, however, that prickliness, spinesence or thorniness decreases with increasing height in the crown.”

“Mid-way through her answer, her neatly measured affability gives way to a decided prickliness.”

“The prickling I felt on my skin warned me that danger was imminent.”

“The patient reported intermittent pricklings down his right-hand side.”