Pricks

The commercials often featured a rapid-fire sales pitch as he demonstrated the strength of a vacuum's suctioning power by lifting bowling balls or trays of pricks.

Then, in the coda, the celesta dashes to the finish line, with both of the sounds it has used throughout the dance: fast runs of notes over light pricks of harmony.

These pricks also own the concessions at many national parks, including Yosemite.

And if you try to pick them, they fight back, leaving nasty pricks all over your hands and arms.

I couldn’t help but notice in the credits that you thanked Dog Eggs You Found On The Beach and Billionaire Space Pricks?

I know I've mentioned it before, but it took Three Years for these pricks to replace my bag during the last recall.

Cave fans may still nitpick about how this album instrumentally stands against avant-garde classics like Kicking Against the Pricks.

The title of Byrne’s show, Pricks (), refers to her constant need to check her blood sugar level with a pinprick to the finger in order to manage her type 1 diabetes.

If I had my Son of the American Revolution badge/pins/certificate/whatever, I'd send it to these pricks and tell them to get out of the country my ancestors fought to build, and that they are unworthy of.

She has stars in her eyes, and I don’t mean a figurative glimmer, I mean when I looked into her eyes I saw tiny pricks of light shining forth from her dark irises and pupils.

What nagging scruples or pricks of conscience they may have are assuaged by their need for self-preservation, which makes their silence appear logical and rational in the reign of terror.

Diverging from the novel, after Alia pricks Harkonnen with the gom jabbar, she pushes him and sends him flying through a hole in the palace wall, to be devoured by a giant sandworm.

Koheleth's words finish with imagery of nature languishing and humanity marching to the grave.sfn The frame narrator returns with an epilogue: the words of the wise are hard, but they are applied as the shepherd applies goads and pricks to his flock.

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.

The opening phrases of the short-story collection More Pricks than Kicks (1934) affords a representative sample of this style: It was morning and Belacqua was stuck in the first of the canti in the moon.