(1) She felt a prickly sensation rise over skin, as she shivered.(2) My brother is prickly when it comes to sales reps - he sees them as a necessary evil.(3) It's also worthwhile surrounding your pots and trays with netting (or prickly holly clippings) to prevent these rodents digging up the seeds.(4) Diversification can be a prickly topic, though, because there are no hard and fast rules about how many your should own to have a truly diversified portfolio.(5) The day's most prickly moment surrounded one of this election year's hottest issues, and encapsulated the risky nature of an unscreened, unscripted town hall meeting.(6) The perfectly symmetrical prickly balled yacca or Australia grass tree, which takes 100 years to grow a central trunk, is my favourite.(7) I didn't see any cut Blue spruces but the 90 cm potted trees at u00a325 are lovely, with their prickly needles coloured with a metallic blue sheen.(8) He had the distinct prickly sensation on the back of his neck that usually meant he was being watched.(9) Venal, lazy, irascible, horny, prickly - he's always living by his wits in situations that require anything but.(10) He is particularly prickly on the subject of who should do the checks - nurses, doctors or orthopaedic surgeons - and is adamant it should be the latter.(11) The tropical prickly ash has a temperate equivalent called the toothache tree.(12) This is a highly readable, jargon-free treatise on a notoriously prickly subject, intended for general readers rather than academics.(13) An anonymous member of the public found the injured hedgehog in her garden and took the prickly fellow to the Swan Sanctuary last Wednesday.(14) We wandered through a maze of prickly bushes and speculated about the people who had lived there once.(15) The ground was uneven, with little prickly pieces of grass.(16) I have learnt how to establish a healthy working rapport with difficult, prickly people with whom I have precious little in common.
