Sentence examples for as a prick from inspiring English sources

"Well, it makes you come across as a prick if you go on about something you don't know about," she adds.

However, we know he was a prude and I perceive him, to a certain degree, as a prick and smug and that is where we start.

The controversy also laid bare the contentious relationship between the two companies, including one e-mail uncovered by Congressional investigators in which Schering-Plough's chief of cardiovascular research referred to a Merck executive as a "prick" in an exchange with another colleague.

Within the space of a few minutes, Hammargren yelled at someone on his cell phone, described an old colleague as "a prick, there's just no other way to put it," then played "The Johnson Rag" for me on Liberace's old piano.

Within the space of a few minutes, Hammargren yelled at someone on his cellphone, described an old colleague as "a prick, there's just no other way to put it," and then played "The Johnson Rag" for me on Liberace's old piano.

Scott Fitzgerald may not have been as big a prick as Hemingway (literally, if Hemingway himself can be believed, and he can't), but his books are even worse than Hemingway's, including The Great Gatsby, which is often mistaken for a great novel because it can be read in a few hours and its characters are rich people who come to a bad end.

Its innards liquefied by poisons in the bug's bite, the amphibian collapses into a sack of skin -- "formless as a pricked balloon" -- that hangs "in floating folds like scum on top of the water".

The pain began as an odd sensation described as a pricking pain in the lower abdomen without radiating pain.

The strong overlap of differentially expressed gene numbers and GO term enrichment between bacterial pricking (BttP) and sterile wounding as a pricking control (PC) shows that the wounding response makes up for a large part of the observed effects of bacterial pricking.

This pain can present itself as a pricking pain, burning, itching, or sore sensation.

It's normally described as a pricking or itching sensation on the skin in the affected area.