Sentence examples for a prick of from inspiring English sources

"This is a prick of a game," he said afterwards.

I ONCE FELT a prick of an unpleasant emotion.

I wonder whether the person who poisoned her ever felt a prick of conscience.

Who doesn't feel a prick of pity for this grandiose character wandering alone in his bathrobe in the dark, early-morning hours?

The Semantics Even when everybody agrees that terminal sedation is a humane response to unyielding suffering, many doctors seem to feel a prick of conscience.

As the scale of the crisis became apparent, the story of her survival took on a deeper significance, a prick of hope amid the despair.

A lawyer, a scold, a little prick of a person.

In one prototype, a slide holding a finger prick of blood can be inserted over the phone's camera sensor.

In theory, patients would go to a Theranos lab within Walgreens, give a finger prick of blood and get results on an app later that day.

In theory, patients would go to a Theranos lab within Walgreens, give a finger prick of blood and get results on an app later that day.

Theranos' Holmes claimed her company could render obsolete the one billion blood draws done in the U.S. with a simple prick of the finger -- an exciting prospect that caused investors to value her private company at $9.1 billion.