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Pricked meaning
Punctured by small holes. | Listening carefully.
Example sentences (15)
As Corbett tells it, Brötzmann went to an NRG Ensemble performance in the mid-’90s and pricked his ears at the fearless saxophonist leading the band.
It's unclear if the needle pricked him, she said, but her son is undergoing precautionary blood tests for the next six months.
Two decades later, (1959) also took advantage of the camera before any finger is pricked by a spinning wheel.
Our ears pricked up when we heard the swish and thud of the morning newspaper against the front gate.
They creep closer to each other for warmth, are pricked by quills and move away, but then get cold again and try to come nearer.
After noting how Knight’s ears pricked up at mention of what must have been gold or copper, she kept returning to it until she convinced him to send an expedition to her people.
It was a view of my aquatic childhood that I had never seen before, and as I looked and looked, drinking in the pictures below, I was surprised by the tears that suddenly pricked my eyes.
She ran into one of the sharp leaves of a palm plant, and the tip pricked her forehead.
He spent weeks in the intensive care unit — tethered to uncomfortable breathing and feeding tubes, pricked with invasive IV lines.
A used needle on the ground can be dangerous — being pricked by one can lead to disease or infection.
Continue to roast the chicken for about 45-60 minutes, or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh registers 165 degrees (F), or when the juices run clear when the thigh is pricked with the tines of a fork.
Just as you’d expect from a five-time Academy Award nominee, Adams is convincing from the moment we first see her awakened by a nightmare in which she’s by pricked with a needle by her younger self.
Chicago, 1983 When a final composition was achieved, scaled-up full-size cartoons were often made, which were then pricked with a pin and "pounced" with a bag of soot to leave dotted lines on the surface as a guide.
The main lines of a drawing made on paper were pricked over with a point, the paper held against the wall, and a bag of soot (spolvero) banged on them on produce black dots along the lines.
While doing so, he pricked his hand on a thorn.