English example sentences with "pricked"

It is better to be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose.

The dog pricked up his ears at the sound.

At the sound of my voice, my dog pricked up his ears.

I pricked up my ears.

I pricked up my ears when I heard of the available apartment.

I pricked my thumb with a needle.

She pricked the balloon.

His conscience pricked him.

She pricked herself with a needle while embroidering.

He pricked up his ears.

Ouch! I've pricked myself!

He pricked himself with a pin.

She took a tiny golden needle, pricked Elsa in the arm, and gave the needle to the old man, who stuck it into the heart of the doll.

Tom pricked the balloon with a pin.

From time to time she fell into a sort of reverie, and when she was quite alone she would reason thus: "I am ill, and yet I do not know my complaint. I suffer, and yet I bear no wound. I feel afflicted, and yet I have not lost any one of my sheep. I burn, although I am seated in the deep shade. How many times have the brambles torn my skin and yet I did not cry? How many bees have pricked me with their stings and yet I was soon cured? Thus that which has now wounded me in the heart must be keener than all those!"

Tom pricked his finger with a needle.

The mice kept nibbling at the cactus, no matter how much it pricked them and made them cry.

I pricked my finger with a needle.

My ears pricked up when I heard this.

Tom pricked Mary's bum with a cactus.

If you want roses, you're going to get pricked.