Sentence examples for prick of from inspiring English sources

"This is a prick of a game," he said afterwards.

A lawyer, a scold, a little prick of a person.

I ONCE FELT a prick of an unpleasant emotion.

But assured by the sudden prick of white light, we paddled farther, and faster, toward it.

He can feel the prick of a needle, and the difference between hot and cold.

I wonder whether the person who poisoned her ever felt a prick of conscience.

Aisha felt pricks of fear spread through her.

No more pricking of over-inflated celebrity egos.

I'm sorry to be such a prick, but paradise would make pricks of us all.

"Les Noces," begins, as does "Maple Garden," with pricks of light cutting through a dark stage.

With the pricking of the Wall Street bubble, that theory is now itself history.