Sentence examples for it has prick from inspiring English sources

Like others of its type, it has prick ears and a tail that curls over its back.

It has pricked consciences and made people more aware of their rights, concedes Ms Margolis.

Four weeks earlier, I had pricked my finger on a screw that stuck out from a bus shelter's corrugated metal.

If that song has pricked people's attention, it's all to the good, but its otherwise trenchant observations on being sold short by sub-prime loans are lost in its pursuit of controversy.

The experience has pricked Harris's writerly antennae.

This has pricked the bubble of impunity in Russia".

"There is nothing that has pricked the consciousness of the American people," he said.

There are, after all, poor people in rich countries too.The South African case has pricked many consciences.

Something has pricked his bubble, brought him up short - a voice in his head, maybe, or a whisper in the air.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660-69) The 350th anniversary of the great fire of London has pricked my interest and I've reread Pepys's diary, which I hadn't looked at since my early 20s.

US Vice-President Joe Biden has said the image of six-year-old children "riddled with bullet holes" has pricked the consciousness of the nation.