Pricked
['prikit]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Prick
Checker: Nicole
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Acid, sour, tart, sharp.
Editor: Rae
Examples
- Holmes pricked up his ears. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I could not lay a finger anywhere but I was pricked; and now I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I saw that word pricked him and kept on. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He pricked up his ears at the word; he started erect at the gesture, and came, with head lovingly depressed, to receive the expected caress. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The landlord pricked up his ears. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Round about, spiked, slashed snow-peaks pricked the heaven. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The thought pricked up all her sharp intelligence and presence of mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Pilot pricked up his ears when I came in: then he jumped up with a yelp and a whine, and bounded towards me: he almost knocked the tray from my hands. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Presently a spear reached out and pricked the victim. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- There was a thistle which pricked him vividly, but not too much, because all his movements were too discriminate and soft. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I pricked up my ears at that. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The coachman looked back and the guard looked back, and even the emphatic leader pricked up his ears and looked back, without contradicting. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- When presently his father died, it collapsed like a pricked bladder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was clumsy enough with her needle, poor girl, and pricked her fingers as much as she had been used to ink them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You shan't stir a step, so you may just stay where you are, scolded Jo, crosser than ever, having just pricked her finger in her hurry. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- At a stroke she had pricked the van der Luydens and they collapsed. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Editor: Rae