Sentence examples for a sharp prick from inspiring English sources

As he waited for a bus, Markov felt a sharp prick in his leg.

A sharp prick to the balloon's surface breaks it into two clean pieces, while overinflation shatters it into wrinkly leftover strips.

During acute pain, an immediate intense feeling of short duration, sometimes described as a sharp pricking sensation, is followed by a dull throbbing sensation.

Even small things can bring the sharp prick of a memory.

I felt the sharp prick of a foreign object inserted into my vein.

The needle goes in, a sharp metal prick.

All it takes is one sharp prick and... well, we all know how that story ends.

"Now all of us at James Towne, George Percyy, their leader, wrote, were "beginning to feel that sharp prick of hunger" that no one can describe "but he which has tasted the bitterness thereof".

The sharp prick and the consequent slow, filling ache drove Burton's eyes up, and he saw the tops of the bare willow trees, the frightened white sky, and the black birds.

She felt the sharp prick of the needle and the sting of liquid just under her armpit.

As science learned more about suspended animation and hibernation in other creatures, the dying were given another chance — subjected to smelling salts, electric shock, sharp pricks to the fingers, yanks to legs and the application of caustic chemicals to the skin, to see if it blistered.