Example sentences for: spiky

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

  • The Sierra de Alhamilla is a desert of barren mountains, rocky ravines, and dry gravel riverbeds; spiky agave plants and prickly pears are the only vegetation.

  • This January, the spiky hair and bulging eyes of Bart Simpson mysteriously found their way into a photograph of soldiers patrolling a street in Hebron that accompanied a New York Times Magazine essay by Palestinian intellectual Edward Said.

  • The panorama from the terrace on a clear day is fantastic, from the spiky skyscrapers of downtown to the distant Pacific.

  • One popular scheme for hair--top half blond, bottom half dark--seems to have originated in the punk styles of the late 1980s, when kids bleached the top half of their spiky hair so they could dye it green or purple.

  • Just a few more words of warning: Beware of spiky sea urchins when swimming off rocks.


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