What is "gooseflesh"

Usage examples of "gooseflesh".

The vasoconstriction called gooseflesh meant his skin had begun sealing itself tighter to keep body heat in, stop blood flow to his periphery, where heat evaporated faster, and preserve it around his core organs.

The deep, haunting resonance of the bullroarer raised gooseflesh as much for its significance as for its sonorous timbre.

The myriad flecks of rust clung stubbornly and she was covered with gooseflesh before the harsh lye soap had done its job.

Still, she surfaced goosefleshed and gasping, raking her heavy hair out of her eyes.

Having heard the clangour and Cormac’s shouts, they’d hurried onto the gallery to stare down at that which erupted their bodies into gooseflesh.

Pitt's gooseflesh rose in unison with a sudden cold air current that danced across his skin.

The chill breeze conjured gooseflesh until she thought her entire body would finally draw into one shivering bump.

Hurrying along the gloomy alleys between hulking buildings, she rubbed the icy gooseflesh nettling up her arms.

Gooseflesh pebbling his skin, nausea, an eddying sensation behind his forehead as if his thoughts were spinning out of control.

Gooseflesh prickled his arms though he was not cold and his ears rang with a strange singing note like nothing he had ever experienced.

Gooseflesh prickled over his shoulders, chilled as much by his thoughts as by the cold stream-water.

He cupped his right hand around the back of his neck, to warm and smooth away a sudden stippling of gooseflesh.

The gooseflesh that had mottled the pale flesh of her body faded, and she unclenched fingers knotted about the hilt of a nonexistent sword and made her warding off gesture.

Heart bumping, she rubbed her hands over the gooseflesh on her arms and stared at familiar walls that the glare turned strange, whiting out shadows, bringing cracks and stains into startling prominence.