Sentence examples for with a prick from inspiring English sources

Rohmer's surfaces aren't placid but taut; they're smooth because of their almost unbearably high tension, and their tautness is like that of a membrane that could, with a prick, be definitively burst, giving way to an unpredictably chaotic eruption of pent-up passion.

A short myth as finely crafted and irresistible as a scrumptious pastry, and as grotesque as if said pastry, with a prick of the fork, oozed blood.

We learn she'd been raised mainly by a nanny while her mother spent all her time with a "prick" boyfriend in another apartment.

For the wounding treatment, leaflets were wounded by boring with a prick.

By Shantha Bloemen LILONGWE, Malawi, 1 December 2008 – With a prick in the heel of her tiny foot, six-week-old Daudi is the having a test to see if she, like her mother, is living with the HIV virus.

Early infant HIV diagnosis helps save lives in Malawi LILONGWE, Malawi, 1 December 2008 – With a prick in the heel of her tiny foot, six-week-old Daudi is the having a test to see if she, like her mother, is living with the HIV virus.

Skin prick test could be performed with a prick-by-prick technique dissolving 1 spoon of sugared gelatin powder in 5 mL of saline solution (non sugared powder tends to became a gel at room temperature) [6].

With just a prick of the heel, it is possible to collect a blood sample on filter paper and transport it to a laboratory with the capacity for this type of testing.

In his review of "Purity," the new novel by Wallace's friend, Jonathan Franzen, he contrasts Franzen's reputation for "being kind of a prick" with Wallace's.

And you can use it to call people a prick with.

With a fork, prick the dough in several places.