Example sentences for: spiky

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

  • As Hannah, who grows from spiky prole to uneasy denizen of the middle class, she's the sort of woman who's underrepresented in movies: smart and aggressive and desperately unhappy about the random injustices of her upbringing.

  • And for that devout motorcycle thug on your Christmas list, there's a black T-shirt with a skull and crossbones captioned "2 nd death" on the front and, on the back, a spiky, harsh drawing of the Crucifixion, captioned "It's hell without Jesus."

  • 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.

  • Even fiercer is a high-heeled sandal by Todd Oldham with straps of spiky barbed wire that cross the foot and climb up around the calf.


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