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Prickly
"Prickly" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Could it be that her prickly attitude is just because she has period pains? No, couldn't be.
The question of free will is a prickly conundrum to religion.
Orangutans have been observed using sticks to pry nutritious seeds from prickly plants.
There's no plant more prickly than a thistle.
Emilien wants to eat fried prickly pears.
With cornel shrubs and many a prickly spear / of myrtle crowned, it chanced a mound was near.
How are prickly pears eaten?
Kabylia produces a lot of olive oil, figs, prickly pears, pomegranates and grapes.
Do not eat prickly pears together with fresh figs! Otherwise, you will be sorry!
Do not add prickly pears to fresh figs! Otherwise, you will be sorry!
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The prickly pear is a cactus; you have to peel it before eating it to remove the spines and the tough skin.
He has a prickly personality. He doesn't get along with people because he is easily set off.
It was a prickly situation.
People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more. They’ve had it. So we just have to be prickly to make sure nobody’s going to come in and grab us.
Striding across stage in his bright white jacket, his voice soaring and cracking – like Charlie Parker’s – he was nervous but prickly eloquent, caustic yet encouraging.
Below, way out on the flat, Blue had seen a light green that could be graze but up here was nothing 'cept all kinds of prickly bushes, and too many of them. Ground-spreading pricklies that reached out to jump at a horse's belly […]
Dad, I need to ride on your shoulders because the pricklies hurt my feet.
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