How to Use goose bumps in a Sentence

goose bumps

plural noun

• That thought might be enough to give USC fans goose bumps.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
• My arms broke out in goose bumps when the Moses solos filled the hall with rich notes.
  — Pam Mandel, Longreads, 5 June 2018
• Lots of the kids are all right (some are more than all right), and there are even a few goose bump moments.
  — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• It’s late May and the room’s temperature is set to goose bumps.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 11 June 2019
• The prolonged slog made this finish line sweeter, the end-game aroma more fragrant, the goose bumps the size of the pitching mound.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2022
• Sure, the goose bumps still hit all the way up through the high school days, but nervousness transformed into confidence.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2018
• This time, when the students sang, their voices produced a rich, sonorous harmony that brought goose bumps.
  — Cecilia Ballí, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• People describe feeling a sense of peace, goose bumps, tingling — even toothaches.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• Calamia’s goose bumps, a sign of euphoria and joy, gave way to a measure of frustration with the details surrounding the race.
  — Kurt Streeter Taylor Glascock, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• But Brockmeier isn’t out to raise goose bumps, though easily spooked readers no doubt will shiver here and there.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• On hearing the first notes of Chalifour playing the solo Bach partita that night, the goose bumps came, as Gehry has recalled, then the tears.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• That heightens the senses, that intensifies the ambiance, that summons the goose bumps.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
• But Woods, even diminished at 46, still has the capacity to create goose bumps.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022
• There has never been such an exciting 4½ minutes, never been so many tears or goose bumps or chills as Galindo caused.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2017
• The least common form, miliaria profunda, attacks the deepest layer of the skin and causes firm, itchy pimples that look like goose bumps, the Mayo Clinic said.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 19 July 2022
• Once again, the homestretch duels between the United States and Jamaica, with fans of both countries yelling their lungs out, will generate plenty of goose bumps.
  — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• While the temples have crumbled, seeing the omphalos gave me goose bumps, and left me awe-struck over Delphi’s sublime place in history.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 9 July 2019
• Cool, moist skin with goose bumps in the heat, heavy sweating, faintness, dizziness, fatigue, weak and rapid pulse, low blood pressure when standing, muscle cramps and nausea.
  — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2021
• Winterer, now retired, said his 1996 interview with Fitzgerald still gives him goose bumps.
  — Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
• But through no fault of two hard-working actors, Robert Goodale and Daniel Easton, goose bumps prove frightfully difficult to provoke.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
• Actor Jeff Daniels triggers goose bumps while reading moving passages.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
• That passage gives me goose bumps, a credit to Koryta’s descriptive powers.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 25 May 2018
• The scooting gust of wind, goose bumps, suspension of breath, and vertigo — a set of experiences comprising a sort of fairground anaesthesia — prepare you for the fatal part of the ride.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
• Sailing fans get goose bumps when the windjammers of Penobscot Bay open this festival by sailing en masse into the picturesque harbor with flags and banners flying.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2016
• Amer Bdour, a Jordanian guide for trekking outfitter World Expeditions, says the following campfire story gave him goose bumps as a kid.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 30 June 2022
• Amatza Gutiérrez, a student from the Mexican capital, said the idea of a shooter targeting Mexicans because of their ethnicity gives her goose bumps.
  — Amy Guthrie, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024