(a.) Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes.
Example Sentences:
(1) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
(2) The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It.
(3) He described his players as “half-hearted,” lacking spikiness in the duels and quality in general.
(4) Calcium oxalate dihydrate stones have a striated, spiky and non-homogeneous appearance on plain X-rays.
(5) Bula was spiky when asked why he had made the change.
(6) As the euchromatin space of affected nuclei is "sanded" by numerous core particles with concomitant dissolution of the chromatin network, spiky, finely granular, and eosinophilic inclusions without a limiting membrane become visible in hematoxylin and eosin-stained paraffin sections.
(7) A new model for clot contraction is proposed, based on the rigidity of the long spiky pseudopodia and on the motile properties of platelets.
(8) The challenge for Defour is to make his mark in the Premier League having also made the transition from attacking midfielder to spiky holding player.
(9) If the geometry of City’s short passing exuded class, key performers were tiring fast as the game became slightly spiky.
(10) Trimingham complained about repeated references to her as "bisexual" and "lesbian" and insults about her appearance - including comments that she wore doc martens and had spiky hair.
(11) And Hitchcock was a doddle compared to Capote, with his helium voice, the birdlike mincing, the urbane spikiness.
(12) It started with a week's safari in the Masai Mara, where they saw zebras, wildebeest and a cheetah with her spiky-haired cub.
(13) Goodness knows how spiky things might have turned had Cheick Tioté, Pardew’s feisty Ivorian midfield enforcer, not been injured.
(14) "I love that a country capable of extraordinary pomp and ceremony can still retain a spiky irreverence towards its establishment.
(15) There was a spikiness about Wilshere in Saturday's FA Cup tie.
(16) Camilla, meanwhile, went for a spiky number that looked a little like a napkin folded into a swan.
(17) A close-packed array of hexons forms a planar facet of the icosahedral capsid, with the tops presenting a spiky appearance that is consistent with electron micrographs of the adenovirus capsid.
(18) The manometer-recorded right atrial pressure pulse of tricuspid stenosis differed from the normal, with (1) elevation of right atrial pressure, (2) different morphologic features (tall, spiky A wave complete before C; small V wave with an interruption, the tricuspid opening snap notch at termination of the gradual Y descent; a diastolic plateau, the relatively flat diastolic segment of the right atrial pressure pulse following the tricuspid opening snap notch prior to the next A wave), and (3) the relative lack of right atrial pressure and right atrial pressure pulse response with normal respiration.
(19) Marks & Spencer’s chief has warned of a “spiky” runup to Christmas, as Black Friday puts shoppers in the mood for discounts after a slowdown in clothing sales last summer.
(20) ***** With her combination of spikiness and compassion, Dawn may well turn out to be an interesting addition to the mix of Mad Men.