How to Use goose bumps in a Sentence

goose bumps

plural noun
  • My arms broke out in goose bumps when the Moses solos filled the hall with rich notes.
    — Pam Mandel, Longreads, 5 June 2018
  • Every one of them is liable to give you goose bumps or knock your shoulders back.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Lots of the kids are all right (some are more than all right), and there are even a few goose bump moments.
    — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • My goose bumps in the desert were a social mammal’s request for warmth via touch.
    — James Stewart, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
  • People describe feeling a sense of peace, goose bumps, tingling — even toothaches.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • This time, when the students sang, their voices produced a rich, sonorous harmony that brought goose bumps.
    — Cecilia Ballí, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The fire-engine-red convertible that gave you goose bumps on the test-drive has turned into your regular ride.
    — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Wagner’s mighty horns are split across the upper arms like goose bumps, while vocals register at the wrists like a pulse.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Sure, the goose bumps still hit all the way up through the high school days, but nervousness transformed into confidence.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2018
  • But Brockmeier isn’t out to raise goose bumps, though easily spooked readers no doubt will shiver here and there.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The prolonged slog made this finish line sweeter, the end-game aroma more fragrant, the goose bumps the size of the pitching mound.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2022
  • That heightens the senses, that intensifies the ambiance, that summons the goose bumps.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Calamia’s goose bumps, a sign of euphoria and joy, gave way to a measure of frustration with the details surrounding the race.
    — Kurt Streeter Taylor Glascock, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • There has never been such an exciting 4½ minutes, never been so many tears or goose bumps or chills as Galindo caused.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Actor Jeff Daniels triggers goose bumps while reading moving passages.
    — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
  • But Woods, even diminished at 46, still has the capacity to create goose bumps.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2022
  • That passage gives me goose bumps, a credit to Koryta’s descriptive powers.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • After their opener, Maddie Musselman, twice a gold medalist, looked up into the crowd and felt goose bumps.
    — Adam Kilgore, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • Cool, moist skin with goose bumps in the heat, heavy sweating, faintness, dizziness, fatigue, weak and rapid pulse, low blood pressure when standing, muscle cramps and nausea.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Birdy performed a version of one of her songs as a ballad, which built into a cascading sequence involving a looper pedal, that gave me goose bumps.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 22 July 2024
  • Every time her vocals seamlessly shifted from a keen voice, sharp as a blade, to a beautiful singing voice, the audience broke out in goose bumps, breath bated.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2024
  • While the temples have crumbled, seeing the omphalos gave me goose bumps, and left me awe-struck over Delphi’s sublime place in history.
    — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 9 July 2019
  • Winterer, now retired, said his 1996 interview with Fitzgerald still gives him goose bumps.
    — Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • On hearing the first notes of Chalifour playing the solo Bach partita that night, the goose bumps came, as Gehry has recalled, then the tears.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Inside, the place that had been so hot as to be nearly unbearable on that morning 50 years ago was mostly empty, and the air-conditioning was cranked high enough to give me goose bumps.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The least common form, miliaria profunda, attacks the deepest layer of the skin and causes firm, itchy pimples that look like goose bumps, the Mayo Clinic said.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 19 July 2022
  • Once again, the homestretch duels between the United States and Jamaica, with fans of both countries yelling their lungs out, will generate plenty of goose bumps.
    — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Sailing fans get goose bumps when the windjammers of Penobscot Bay open this festival by sailing en masse into the picturesque harbor with flags and banners flying.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2016
  • The scooting gust of wind, goose bumps, suspension of breath, and vertigo — a set of experiences comprising a sort of fairground anaesthesia — prepare you for the fatal part of the ride.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
  • But through no fault of two hard-working actors, Robert Goodale and Daniel Easton, goose bumps prove frightfully difficult to provoke.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019

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