Sentence examples for prick as from inspiring English sources

Optimists, on the other hand, believe that the so-called "Westminster bubble", is actually quite easy to prick – as long as you pick your pin (and your moment) carefully.

One of Tallulah's party tricks was to escort guests to the master bedroom, fling back the covers from the bed in which Emery was sleeping, and crow, "Did you ever see a prick as big as that before?" So size mattered, but eventually, in his case, not enough.

In a subsequent study, we showed that this Ab-array can also be used for serum collected by finger prick, as well as blood samples obtained by dried blood spot (DBS).

Unease about being categorised as a popular novelist – "schmaltzy and one-dimensional" – was what led to his being disinvited by Oprah Winfrey's book club in 2001; since he was "uncomfortable and conflicted", she said ("a pompous prick", as someone else put it), it would be wrong to have him on the show.

If they don't feel right using those words, they can just refer to the asshole or prick as "the perpetrator".

Wayne is as much of a prick as you choose to play him as, and Catwoman is the conflicted thief we know so well.

His allies, meanwhile, have produced one memorably foolish distraction – last week's Condoleezza-Rice-for-vice-president balloon, pricked as soon as it was floated – and one memorably painful gaffe, in the form of Romney surrogate John Sununu's (hastily-retracted) suggestion that President Obama should "learn how to be American".

Only one participant, a tea worker in the W subgroup, was sensitized to tea as demonstrated by skin prick tests as well as baseline and during-work RASTs (baseline: +, during-work: 2+).

Data available from a pilot study where 102 schoolchildren were skin prick tested as well as data available from studies on other areas of Indonesia [ 38, 39] were used for sample size calculations.

It was mentioned that the midwives who give the information in the last trimester of pregnancy on the heel prick programme, as well as the screeners who in many cases actually perform the heel prick need to be able to explain the complicated outcomes of the screening.

Thus, for both beetle populations, oral infection, pricking infection as well as pricking control result in an upregulation of AMPs both 6 h and 18 h after exposure.