He was barely listening until the salary was mentioned. Then he pricked up his ears.
Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle.
The study says that small doses of oral sucrose do not reduce the pain which a baby feels when its heel is pricked to yield a blood sample or it has a drip put in to receive antibiotics.
She pricked herself on a needle.
She screamed out when she pricked her finger on a thorn.
Her face is thin and worn, and she has coarse, red hands, all pricked by the needle, for she is a seamstress.
The blister broke when she pricked it.
Usually a dark or black pigment such as soot was introduced into the pricked skin.
In a study published in the Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, 48 volunteers who inhaled oxytocin vapor and then had their fingers pricked lowered their pain threshold by more than half.
I pricked my finger on a rose tree.
He pricked down each item.
Then she fell to reflecting again, and in looking downwards a thorn of the rose remaining in her breast accidentally pricked her chin.
Of ALL the economic bubbles that have been pricked, few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself.
She sat on the stool in front of the wheel and the wheel whirred round. As soon as she touched the spindle she pricked her finger. She fell to the floor in a deep sleep.
She pricked out the design from the pattern.
Sweat pricked across my back and scalp.
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