How to use itch in a sentence

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• Not even thirty minutes after leaving the shower, my head starts itching. What gives?From the entry what gives
• The squeaking won’t do any harm, but if it makes your teeth itch, oil the hinge.From the entry make someone's teeth itch
• A nice shot of whiskey would really scratch the itch right about now.From the entry scratch the itch
• Rebecca had always thought shorts were far superior to pants, as they didn't constantly make her legs itch.From the entry superior
• We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles.From the entry giggle
• The teasing itch from the mosquito bite drove her crazy.From the entry teasing
• I've done it here and there just to scratch the itch.2025 April 14, Keena Blum, “What comes to your mind when you see these people?”, in things your mom should've told you (YouTube). From the entry nicety
• I was itching to shoot up the developing fields of barley growing before my eyes.2018, Lewis A. Haeflinger, “In My Dreams”, in Life in the World Wind, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry drab
• At some point, even the boredest of men itched for a woman's touch.2018, Cynthia Dane, Just Friends: A Summer Fling With A Billionaire Heir. From the entry boredest
• My hat itches and I have lost nine dollars at Texas Tea.2016, Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies, →ISBN. From the entry Texas tea
• The best advice for coming up with a business idea is "scratch your own itch".2013, The Escape Manifesto: Quit Your Corporate Job. Do Something Different!. From the entry scratch one's own itch
• An amputee has a bizarre itch in his missing hand: unscratchable, it torments him.2007 May 29, Abigail Zuger, M.D., “The Brain: Malleable, Capable, Vulnerable”, in New York Times. From the entry unscratchable
• “My va-jay-jay itches”, yeasts my friend Anna scratchily into her cell phone.2005 March 3, Billy Manes, “RETURN TO PARIS”, in Orlando Weekly. From the entry va-jay-jay
• Kyle's absence produces an unrelievable itch in Edwina, according to Mrs.2004, Ashby Bland Crowder, Wakeful Anguish: A Literary Biography of William Humphrey, page 229. From the entry unrelievable
• I could have walked away from myself that nightful day: itching, retching, twitching; pain.2000, Máirín Diamond, The testimony of the bones, page 75. From the entry nightful
• Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.1999, Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, section 2. From the entry scratch one's own itch
• Suppose that Smith’s itch is that little bit worse than Jones’s.1997, David Braddon-Mitchell, Frank Jackson, Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 31. From the entry convention
• The cliff beckoned, the button itched, it yearned to be pressed.1979 March 29, Ted Page, “Armidillo Bomb”, in Massachusetts Daily Collegian, volume CVIII, number [108], Amherst, Mass.: University of…. From the entry fingy
• In several cases, prickly sensations and itching appear in quick succession momentarily.1972, Sobhana (Mahā caññʻ Cha rā toʻ ʼA rhaṅʻ), Practical Insight Meditation, page 31. From the entry in quick succession
• Now prurient—I looked that up—it means having itching morbid or lewd and lascivious desires.1967 September, Tom Lehrer, 00:25:50 from the start, in Tom Lehrer: Live In Copenhagen (television production), via DR2. From the entry look up
• I was itching to go him, And he had clouted Ernie.1964, Robert Close, Love Me Sailor, page 131. From the entry go
• The palps of her fingers itched, thickened, erected with the need to touch the bent head.1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry Sundown. From the entry palp
• A dull, heavy headache is frequently present, cutaneous sensibility of often perversed sharp pains, numbness, itching, etc.1915 September, F.C. Bandy, “General Paresis of the Insane”, in The Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society, volume 14, number 9…. From the entry perversed
• When that little game becomes stale, Simon’s adolescent son Josh (Evan Ross) is itching to step into his dad’s shoes.2011 August 25, Stephen Holden, “'The Family Tree' Directed by Vivi Friedman - Review”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry pseudorape
• The junkies itched their way through days and nights.2006 July, Paul Kix, “Framed”, in D Magazine. From the entry Ts and blues
• The boss would make the painsome itching go away.2005, Tabor Evans, Longarm Giant 24. From the entry painsome
• There once was a cat with a terrible itch.2004, The Hutchinson Book of Cat Tales, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry scritch
• The problem, as many people knew, was that Gus had "go fever": he was itching to fly this spacecraft.1994, Jim Lovell, Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, page 14. From the entry go fever
• I pushed my cropped hair up and away from the back of my neck where it was pinchy and itching.1993, Milly Bennett, A. Tom Grunfeld, On Her Own: Journalistic Adventures from San Francisco to the Chinese Revolution, 1917-1927. From the entry pinchy
• His underthighs itched against the wicker seat of his chair.1991, Angela Huth, Invitation to the Married Life, New York: Grove, published 1992, Part 2, p. 249. From the entry underthigh
• Backscratches keep improving but the itch increases.1989, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives, numbers 29-32, page 20. From the entry backscratch
• RhuliGel soothes the itches and ouches of summer.1986 June, “RhuliGel Soothes the Itches and Ouches of Summer [advertisement]”, in Myrna Blyth, editor, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume CIII…. From the entry ouch
• The wind goes among them detaching sweat-smells from underclothes making muscles itch under overcoats tweaking legs with inklings of dancetime.1975, John Dos Passos, edited by Warren G. French, The Twenties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, page 132. From the entry dancetime
• Quarrel chuckled when he saw the flat bumps on his back that would soon start to itch maddeningly.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Undertaker's Wind”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 185. From the entry maddeningly
• If you're at the point in your "swass" journey where you've gotten an uncomfortable itch from excessive moisture, this deodorizing Remedy Soap can help.2023 July 19, “10 Products To Make Butt Sweat Bearable This Summer”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2024. From the entry swass

Meaning of itch

1. noun A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area.
2. noun A constant teasing desire or want.
3. verb To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.

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Questions about itch in a sentence

How do you use itch in a sentence?

Itch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He started learning to drive and he has been itching for opportunities to practice ever since.”

What is a short sentence with itch?

“Backscratches keep improving but the itch increases.”

What does itch mean?

Itch means a sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area.