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Example sentences for: prick

How can you use “prick” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

From these children thick blood smears were prepared from finger prick and read by a technician unaware of the spleen results.
On the contrary, thanks to the spread of the Internet and the rise to prominence of CNNfn and, above all, CNBC, the sell-off occurs with real-time commentary, real-time commentary that is already, almost before the fact, labeling what's occurring as "a sell-off," a "prelude to a correction," or "the first prick of the tech-stock bubble."
These--apart (in Britain) from the more infantile words such as dick and prick -- retain the greatest power to offend and are the least used.
The life of purity, the supreme fair, Ere he arrive his weary', noontide prick.
Small volumes of blood (an amount that could be obtained by a finger prick as opposed to drawing blood from a vein) are labeled as in flow cytometry, but with far less of the expensive reagents.