Sentence examples for pricked from inspiring English sources

An away goal was always likely to be decisive, and when it arrived on 22 minutes through Nilsson – after United felt they should have been awarded a free-kick for a foul on Sturrock – the balloon had been pricked.

Fearless, he pricked pretension and saw through humbug.

Many ears pricked up when BFI Film Fund boss Ben Roberts held up his prop and claimed: "Michael Fassbender's head has been in here".

Small wonder she believed, first, that formal education was stultifying, and second that computers, especially Macs, could shake everything up in the way she longed to see.Even sport pricked her defiance.

THE sweeping, manicured parkland of Greenwich Park in south-east London looks out to Canary Wharf, the City and much of London's pricked skyline.

Look at public-opinion polls, and you can see that the religious right is a balloon waiting to be pricked.

"Not only is he in fine fettle, not only is he not wounded, he's pricked enough to be angry".The good news has also halted Mr Bush's fall in the opinion polls.

The man who is believed by millions of Americans to have cut his wife's throat potters around the golf courses of suburban Los Angeles still a celebrity.If nothing else, the events that took place in and around Hannibal House in south London this week should at least have pricked the complacent British assumption that such things can happen only in America.