Sentence examples for prick at from inspiring English sources

A careful smile that didn't prick at her eyes.

Just then the light seemed to prick at my skin again.

"And, also, I was probably a little bit of a prick at the time.

So I can be a real arrogant, bratty prick at times.

"I hear that I'm a prick at times," Reznor says, "but I just want to do the best work I can do.

To press some Liberians here about their exodus to the United States is to prick at a well of anger at the American government and conflict in their own hearts.

Sand pricked at his skin like needles.

Caperton unbent a paper clip and pricked at the wrapper.

Suddenly, my chest seized, and electric impulses pricked at my skin.

There's no movement against corporate democracy, just shards of comedy that keep pricking at it".

It was a mismatch that the Colts exploited to incredible heights, like pricking at an open wound despite seeing red.