The phrase "an often spiky" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that frequently has a sharp or pointed quality, whether literally or metaphorically.
Example: "The artist's style is characterized by an often spiky approach to color and form, creating a dynamic visual experience."
Alternatives: "a frequently jagged" or "a commonly sharp".
And while Mr. DeFrancisco is hardly a Kardashian, the senator has been a steady, and often spiky, presence in Albany for a quarter-century, often jabbing Democrats, and some members of his own party, as well as keeping up a lively banter on the Senate floor.
Because your cells are on sparce feeders, some will have a flat, black and often spiky appearance.
With its murderous content, high-octane pacing and flaming-haired star, "Run Lola Run" hardly seems inspiration for a children's television series, even for the often spiky "tween" set.
Shy, intense, and often spiky with journalists, she is not known for her light touch.
That brilliant portrayal of the complicated, often spiky relationship between the two underclasses of the high school clique system: the hippy-leaning, music-loving, drug-taking Freaks, and the high-test-scoring, sunshine-eschewing Geeks.
The musical language sometimes takes on a waltzing lilt in ensemble songs that evoke the scintillating Stephen Sondheim score for "A Little Night Music," but Mr. Schmidt often uses spikier, more dissonant colorings when Eugene's tense misery is doing combat with James's increasingly ruffled complacency.
Bottlers elsewhere must use alternative names, though their product is distilled in the same way from the sap of the agave, a spiky desert succulent often wrongly referred to as a cactus.Demand for tequila is growing fast.
Thomas Heatherwick designed an extraordinary spiky thing at the Shanghai Expo.
Giving a kid an umbrella is like giving them an expensive, spiky club.
A flying pterodactyl or a spiky stegosaurus?
