Example sentences for: pricks

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

  • Secretary of State James Baker, in which he urged a much heavier bombardment of Iraq than the "pin pricks" of the Gulf War.

  • In The Acts of the Gospels, New Testament , 9:5, Jesus says to Saul (later Paul): It is hard for you to kick against the pricks . Later, we have Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.) in Agamemnon , 1. 1624: Do not kick against the pricks . The line appears also in Pindar, Pythian Odes II, 1. 174 and in Euripides, Bacchae , 1. 795 (cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations , 14th edition, Little, Brown and Company, 1968, p.

  • And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.

  • My ears (or should I say my eyes) pricked up upon reading Robert M. Sebastian's “Red Pants” [XV, 3] wherein he cites, inter alia , Ezra Pound's Mr. Nixon: Don't kick against the pricks.

  • Don't kick against the pricks,


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