How do you use Prick in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like sting or prickle, plus the exact meaning.
Prick in a sentence
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Prick meaning
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
Synonyms of Prick
Prick vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Prick
- The main meaning on this page is: A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing. | An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object. | A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
- Useful related words include: sting, prickle, pierce, twinge.
- Possible Dutch translations are: prikken.
- In the example corpus, prick often appears in combinations such as: prick the, to prick, finger prick.
Context around Prick
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Prick
- In this selection, "prick" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, finger, judgemental, skin, testing, test and yourself stand out and add context to how "prick" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 200c and prick your potatoes and a boy prick up your. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "prick" sits close to words such as abington, abled and adorno, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with prick
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is just done with a finger prick test. (9 words)
He told Taylor he was sorry for hugging this narcissistic prick. (11 words)
Prick the center of each circle several times with a fork. (11 words)
But with real-time glucose data from CGM, it is easier for Filipinos living with diabetes to finally know what they can eat and when, when should they exercise or not, and best of all, they no longer have to prick their fingers. (43 words)
Theranos, once valued at $9 billion, claimed that its machines could conduct more than a thousand tests — for everything from cancer and diabetes to pregnancy and HIV infection — using just a few drops of blood from a finger-prick. (39 words)
Skin prick testing Skin testing on arm Skin testing on back Skin testing is also known as "puncture testing" and "prick testing" due to the series of tiny punctures or pricks made into the patient's skin. (37 words)
Wouldn’t calling him a big judgemental prick make you a big judgemental prick yourself? (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
Wouldn’t calling him a big judgemental prick make you a big judgemental prick yourself?
Skin prick testing Skin testing on arm Skin testing on back Skin testing is also known as "puncture testing" and "prick testing" due to the series of tiny punctures or pricks made into the patient's skin.
And not having to prick for blood could make this self-test easier to use too.
But with real-time glucose data from CGM, it is easier for Filipinos living with diabetes to finally know what they can eat and when, when should they exercise or not, and best of all, they no longer have to prick their fingers.
Finger prick testing provides powerful information with just a few drops of blood.
Huston was boldest, once miaowing loudly at me across the auditorium during a scene in Prick Up Your Ears, as Alfred Molina’s character Kenneth Halliwell mimes strangling a cat.
Preheat your oven to 200c and prick your potatoes with a fork, once on each side.
The Bloomington-based health care system launched one of the nation's first real-world clinical trials to see whether monitors provide superior health outcomes to older and cheaper finger-prick blood tests.
As I was preparing this story, I was approached by another man, John, wanting to share his experience of being physically abused at TSS by 'sadistic prick' teachers who administered constant canings in the 1980s.
Harris is fine as FBI agent George Aiken, mostly because he’s such a nasty prick when it comes to capturing Jackson.
He told Taylor he was sorry for hugging this narcissistic prick.
Knight was also in About a Boy, Prick Up Your Ears and countless TV shows and stage productions.
Lou’s an introverted lesbian in a New Mexico desert town so rural that, at night, the sky fills with a thousand pin-prick stars.
Prick the center of each circle several times with a fork.
Rula works as the head of customer experience at a financial company and said Layla was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at three and a half weeks old following a heel prick test.
St. Paul’s own prick thus reminds us that saintliness is not gained overnight but through struggle, the weak soul leaving itself open to grace, allowing God to condescend and manifest His greatness in such lowliness.
The CEO of a California biotech company, Decision Diagnostics, claimed to have a finger-prick test that could detect Covid-19 and used multiple fake identities to pump up the company’s stock price, authorities said.
Theranos, once valued at $9 billion, claimed that its machines could conduct more than a thousand tests — for everything from cancer and diabetes to pregnancy and HIV infection — using just a few drops of blood from a finger-prick.
This is just done with a finger prick test.
Tom pulled Greg into the bathroom to confront him, and after smacking Greg on the head and calling him a “little prick,” Greg retaliated by slapping Tom across the face — hard.
Common combinations with prick
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- prick the 6×
- to prick 4×
- finger prick 4×
- prick test 4×
- prick of 4×
- skin prick 3×
- prick testing 3×
- and prick 3×
- prick up 3×
- the prick 3×