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• The prickly pear cactus is an introduced species in Australia.From the entry introduced
• A red-tailed hawk swooped down into a stand of prickly pears in a “wasty” moonscape.2013, Alex Shoumatoff, Legends of the American Desert. From the entry wasty
• When the prickly pear stickers pierced their paws they howled with pain, but they kept running.2010, Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend, McFarland, →ISBN, page 212. From the entry sticker
• The conversational free-for-all on the Internet known as the blogosphere can be a prickly and unpleasant place.2007 April 9, Brad Stone, “Bloggers debate need for code of conduct”, in The International Herald Tribune. From the entry code of conduct
• Prickly pears, known as tunas in Spanish, produce deliciously juicy fruits.2002, Scott Cunningham, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen, page 22. From the entry despine
• 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
• He is described as prickly and porcupinish, but obviously gets beyond this stage of irritability.1971, Phyllis Greenacre, Emotional Growth, page 475. From the entry porcupinish
• Or they mix pepper with the seed of prickly nettle and yellow pellitory pounded in old wine.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 208. From the entry pellitory
• "I wonder where those prickly pear blossoms came from," he mused.1949, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 107. From the entry prickly pear
• Perhaps you'll witness a California gnatcatcher dining on gnats (of course!) or a cactus wren singing on a prickly pear pad.2026, Lynette Brasfield, Mountains to Sea Trail (In the Irvine Standard), page 10. From the entry gnatcatcher
• The good news about “The Silence” is that it’s engrossing and that, at 83, DeLillo’s syntax is as prickly as ever.2020 October 12, Dwight Garner, “Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are”, in New York Times. From the entry engrossing
• Options like mango, blue curacao, passion fruit, mojitorita, frosé, prickly pear, Dr Pepper, mangonada and watermelon are joining the two.2020 July 1, Madalyn Mendoza, “Taco Cabana is about to launch 12 margarita flavors, including a Dr Pepper option”, in San Antonio…. From the entry frosé
• Derived from insects found on the prickly pear cactus, cochineal became one of the principal exports of colonial Mexico.2018 September 5, Hettie Judah, “A New Exhibition Examines The Power Of Pink”, in Vogue. From the entry Mexican pink
• He trips and he cowps into the prickly thorns.2016 March 16, Angeline King, “Could Irish fiction sound a bit less, well, English?”, in Irish Times. From the entry cowp
• Climbing trees was an accomplishment of Alexander's, but the sloe-bush seemed to him dense, prickly and not quite assailable.2015, H.E. Bates, Seven Tales and Alexander, →ISBN. From the entry sloe-bush
• Billy was a forthy fellow, prickly as a hedgyboar.2011, Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy; 2). From the entry hedgy-boar
• One morning she had me traipsing out at the crack of dawn for prickly poppy, toadflax, spiderwort, and skeleton weed.2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest. From the entry spiderwort
• He made a leap for the prickliest portion of the cactus, grimacing in half-expectation of a crotchful of needles.2002, Piers Anthony, Source of Magic, page 17. From the entry crotchful
• John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton play two air-traffic controllers who are prickly and complex. . . .1999 April 22, Roger Ebert, "Pushing Tin" (film review), Chicago Sun Times (retrieved 20 Oct 2011). From the entry aluminum shower
• These triangles can have very prickly personalities.1997, Joen Wolfrom, “The Fascination of Shapes”, in The Visual Dance: Creating Spectacular Quilts, Lafayette, Calif.: C&T Publishing…. From the entry acute
• The pricklies, he says, the Marthas, are tough-minded, rigorous, and precise and like to stress differences and divisions between things.1979, Robert C. Wright, “Reminiscing and Romancing in Mid-America: Rumes, Romances, Stories, and Poems”, in Frederick Manfred, Boston…. From the entry gooey
• He had also a collection of stapelias and other small prickly plants; some of them were almost invisible without a magnifying glass, but most interesting.2010, Marianne North, Abundant Beauty: The Adventurous Travels of Marianne North, Botanical Artist, page 204. From the entry stapelia
• These were ghost bumps — the prickly bumps on my skin that often showed up when a ghost was about to appear.1996, Linda Joy Singleton, Babysitter Beware, page 8. From the entry ghost bump
• A prickly bindweed (the Smilax Sarsaparilla) forms a feature in the near landscape, with its creamy odoriferous blossoms, coral berries, and glossy thorned leaves.1914, John Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete. From the entry thorned
• Before you get all prickly on us, "just friends" doesn't necessarily mean you're making whoopee together–it simply implies that the friendship is a little, shall we say, complicated.2006, Lorelei Sharkey, Emma Taylor, Em & Lo's Rec Sex: An A–Z Guide to Hooking Up, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry make whoopee
• Yaupon is evergreen like the American holly and the familiar hollies of Christmas decorations, but the leaves of yaupon are small and smooth-edged rather than prickly.2002, Connie C. Barlow, The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms. From the entry yaupon
• You'll also need to pick up some prickly pear juice for the Coyote Margarita, mangoes for the Mangorita, pineapples, strawberries, raspberries, bananas, and a pomegranate or two.1999, Robert Plotkin, Raymon Flores, Toma! Margaritas!: The Original Guide to Margaritas and Tequila, illustrated edition, Barmedia…. From the entry mangorita
• These differences meant that meetings of the Cabinet’s welfare committee have been unproductive, with a brooding Mr Field and a waffley and increasingly prickly Ms Harman.1998 August 3, Peter Riddell, “Prisoners of conscience”, in The Times, number 66,270, London, page 18, column 5. From the entry waffley
• A particularly dangerous plant, and one that may cause confusion, is the apple of Sodom, a low, prickly bush with a tomatolike fruit that is highly poisonous.1997, Richard McMahon, “The Outdoor Environment and the Camper”, in Camping Hawai‛i: A Complete Guide, rev. edition, Honolulu, Hi.…. From the entry apple of Sodom
• Many high-structure people, known in the trade as "pricklies," use the DISTAR program (for Direct Instruction Systems for Teaching and Remediation) developed at the University of Oregon.1981 November 9, Ellie McGrath, “‘Pricklies’ vs. ‘Gooeys’: Conflicting Theories of Learning in the Wake of Head Start”, in Henry Anatole…. From the entry gooey
• The squat, limbless growth of the prickly pear was not like the green growths of home, springing on light stalks to lovely flowers like butterflies captured out of air.1930, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Moderate Murderer”, in Four Faultless Felons, London; Toronto, Ont.: Cassell and Company, →OCLC…. From the entry limbless

Meaning of prickly

1. adjective Covered with sharp points.
2. adjective Easily irritated; thorny.
3. adjective Difficult; complicated; hairy or thorny.

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Questions about prickly in a sentence

How do you use prickly in a sentence?

Prickly is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “The prickly pear is a cactus; you have to peel it before eating it to remove the spines and the tough skin.”

What is a short sentence with prickly?

“It was a prickly situation.”

What does prickly mean?

Prickly means covered with sharp points.