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  • Pricking the diminutive fruits with a needle is less fiddly than it sounds; a job to do on a damp Saturday afternoon.

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  • Pricking your finger and testing the blood with a glucose monitor can help you figure out if you're taking the right amount.

    9 Must-Know Facts About How Insulin Works The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Pricking up his ears, Umbrenus had suggested they continue their discussion somewhere more private and had taken them to the home of Decimus Brutus, which was close by.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Pricking his ears forward, Killer let out several loud, sharp barks.

    #33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010

  • By the Pricking of my Thumbs The hubbub occasioned by our sudden arrival and the announcement of our marriage was overshadowed almost at once by an event of greater importance.

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  • Pricking his ears forward, Killer let out several loud, sharp barks.

    #33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010

  • Pricking my fingertip seven times a day to squeeze out a drop of blood to check my blood sugar reading

    Riva Greenberg: The Type 1 Versus Type 2 Diabetes War 2010

  • Pricking thousands of eardrums, the blast walloped though the wide corridors lined with amber-colored lockers, then with nothing to stop it other than exhaustion, it spread over the large campus, across the lines of concrete and grass, dicing through the chain link fences.

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  • Pricking your finger and testing the blood with a glucose monitor can help you figure out if you're taking the right amount.

    9 Must-Know Facts About How Insulin Works 2010

  • Pricking his ears forward, Killer let out several loud, sharp barks.

    #33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010

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