Sentence example with the word 'pricking'

pricking

Definition n. the act of puncturing with a small point

Last update: September 9, 2015


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Paddle the canoe and fish, while the girls learn to spin and weave, grind maize, and cook - good conduct being enforced by punishments of increasing severity, up to pricking their bodies with aloethorns and holding their faces over burning chillies.   [Please select]

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The foremost of the soldiers were already upon the heels of the crowded mules, pricking them with bayonets.   [Please select]

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Even Gog and Magog have an air of pricking up their ears to hear the footsteps of unseen guests.   [Please select]

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] I have been more successful in pricking the roots than in marking them with a brush.   [Please select]

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In a little while he gave another prick, and Big Lion called again, 'What is pricking me so.'   [Please select]

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How bear the thousand little memories--the trifling dates, acts, words, pricking him with anguish.   [Please select]

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"By the pricking of her thumbs" she was aware of a wicked destiny approaching her.   [Please select]

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