How to Use prickly in a Sentence

prickly

adjective

• The plant's leaves are prickly.
• What can the rest of us learn from the prickly people in the world?
  — Suzy Exposito, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2024
• The raw meat, the subtle fat, the prickly acidities of the sauce, the pure flavor.
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2020
• There are less prickly pieces of loose fur to stick to your clothes.
  — Lauren Palmer, Curbed, 15 June 2018
• The big cat was perched on a tall, prickly cactus, but didn't seem to mind the spikes.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 19 June 2018
• And although Ames forges the story’s premise, prickly, funny Reese is the star of the show.
  — Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2021
• Spruce needles also can be stiff and prickly to the touch.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Look, read the labels, mull over the prickly unanswered questions many of the pieces leave you with.
  — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• Gin: The gin’s role here is to add some prickly juniper on the finish, so get one that has a lot of that.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 24 June 2023
• My hair stood on end, and prickly sweat savaged my cheeks.
  — Erik Hedegaard, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2021
• That is, Pages stacked the deck in favour of the quirky, the prickly, the heroically uncommercial.
  — Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
• Big yellow orbs still cling to a prickly maze of vines that has mostly died.
  — Tess Taylor, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
• Rocks, a sparse clumping of tall grass, prickly things like cacti, and Joshua Trees as far as the eye can see.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Electric blues, reds and purples of prickly urchins, sea stars and an anemones.
  — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
• But Joe is a relief — funny, prickly, human — and the film could use more of him.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• Days later, hair would appear in his armpits again, tiny and prickly, like the heads of toothpicks in a jar.
  — Hurmat Kazmi, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• Stop at the Cholla Cactus Garden and walk along its paths, but don't get too close to the prickly plants.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
• Now 2 weeks old, zoo staff said the prickly little one is doing well.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2022
• High will demonstrate how to care for, gather and cook prickly pears.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• Then in 2016, in a show of deference to the prickly Persians, Xi went to Tehran to cement the alliance.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• This has made the business of documenting the singer’s life a prickly one.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
• This prickly beast is not a plant for hot, humid regions.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
• Mari's own sense of guilt was what fueled a lot of what people perceived as prickly in her.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 16 Mar. 2020
• Here are some of the prettiest flowers peeking out from the prickly spines this spring.
  — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020
• Rose stored over the winter can be prickly — sorry — to get going again.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2021
• The hills are covered in creosote and mesquite, the gullies are full of sage, and there are lots of prickly pears and saw palmetto.
  — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021
• But the driver is a prickly pill who won’t even call his sister by her rechristened nun name.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
• Those costs and the low rate of approval have always been prickly pears for investing in biotech.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• That prickly sense of anxiety, constantly reading the tea leaves as a matter of survival, is just part of the ecosystem, like the blistering summer heat.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
• The special, in which hecklers are given free rein to interrupt the show, is the 39-year-old’s attempt to explore his prickly relationship with his audience once and for all.
  — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024