Sentence examples for prick for from inspiring English sources

An album provisionally titled Kurt Kobain was changed to Prick, Kurt being "a prick" for dying and ruining Melvins' plans.

I was a prick for most of the 90s, and I think my supposedly funny writings of the period probably went the same wandering way as my standup.

Covering the police beat, he saw the rough side of life, which dented, though did not destroy, his faith in the world: "It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come".

Holt wrote that Ferdinand had called him a "fat prick" for arguing that the Manchester United player had not recognised that a missed test should be regarded as a failed test.

Design: The plantar SCA and behavioural state in response to nociceptive (the heel prick for blood samples, or immunization) and tactile (routine nursery handling) simulation was recorded in four different groups of infants (n=71): Preterm and term neonatal infants (defined here as up to 1 week old), and preterm and term infants in the postneonatal period.

We've all known Bill Cosby was a prick for a long time, so I don't know what to tell you".

She'd been stuck for blood and pricked for allergies.

He is anxiously alert all day, ears pricked for the slightest sound.

The dog was silent but kept its ears pricked for each scream.

I keep my ears pricked for the sound of cars, but mostly hear cows.

This is gross.' " Astill has an ear pricked for self-­incriminations and tactless evasions.