Sentence examples for pricker from inspiring English sources

Concealed in the man's pocket was a device he called a "pricker," which consisted of a needle mounted on a thimble and a cross-shaped piece of paper.

After many months of wielding his pricker and tallying the results, he drew a "beauty map" of the British Isles.

So Rickles's legend as a dauntless pricker of pomposity was born.

Or maybe it all started when the car backed up the slope of the driveway and the tires bumped over the sidewalk between the knee-high pricker hedges.

It would take several expeditions before I found it, perhaps because it was half-overgrown with pricker bush, weeds and small trees.

Acid-penned novelist, derider of silences, pricker of postwar consciences and complacent West German bubbles.

When a village child dies, accusations are made and the witch pricker called in.

Sausage prickers convince themselves that the leaked liquid is largely fat and thus conclude that a pierced sausage is a healthier sausage.

They love them -- eat the prickers and all, great big thistles.

Bushes are nice 'cause they don't have prickers.

The Bible of barbed wire, Robert Clifton's "Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, & Stickers" (University of Oklahoma Press, 1970, and from which this article's illustrations are drawn), lists 749 varieties of barbed wire, most of them patented and almost all devised in the peak years of westwards expansion.