Sentence examples for prickles from inspiring English sources

I have a great love of humour that prickles the pompous but also understand – and have argued publicly and in print – the significance of a living monarchy in a democratic society such as Britain's.

The skyscraper makes a strikingly beautiful centrepiece for Downtown Dubai, a business-cum-residential complex where what was a patch of dust now prickles with cranes and sparkling new high-rises.

Roses actually have prickles, not thorns.

Hybrids without prickles have been developed.

Unlike thorns, prickles are actually pointed protuberances from a plant's epidermis.

If thorns, spines, prickles, and trichomes are the spear brigade, idioblasts are the landmines.

The stems of many species are covered with prickles; the lower leaves are scalelike; and the leathery upper leaves have untoothed blades with three to nine large veins.

Soft pines, such as white, sugar, and piñon pines, have relatively soft timber, needles in bundles of five (less commonly, one to four), stalked cones with scales lacking prickles, and little resin.

Hard pines, such as Scotch, Corsican, and loblolly pines, have relatively hard timber, needles in bundles of two or three (rarely, five to eight), cone scales with prickles, and large amounts of resin.

Dewberry plants are low-growing perennials and are often heavily armed with prickles.

The leaves and stems are sometimes armed with prickles.