How to Use nerve ending in a Sentence

nerve ending

noun
  • What can look like errors, to me, look like nerve endings.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Except metronomes do not have nerve endings.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • It’s made up of fat, blood vessels, and nerve endings.
    — Scott Haak, EverydayHealth.com, 6 May 2026
  • This wasn’t a music of minds — or even hearts — so much as nerve endings.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Your brain has no nerve endings, so a pain in the brain is not like having a pain in the neck.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The body registers pain through nerve endings throughout the body.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2025
  • This avoids nerve endings that normally cause pain during a tattoo.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
  • Packed with nerve endings, the soles and toes respond to touch, massage, or even gentle nibbling.
    — Essence, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The nerve endings in our fingers are triggered; our senses expand.
    — Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Each tubule runs through the tooth's dentin layer, directly to a nerve ending within the tooth's pulp.
    — New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Eclipse observers will likely not register pain as there are no nerve endings inside the eye.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Turkey feet are almost all tendon and bone, with very little nerve endings or tissue.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2023
  • How does pressure and vibration across millions of nerve endings become a hug?
    — Ariel Bleicher, Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
  • If a black widow bites you and the bite is not dry, the venom will cause pain by interfering with your nerve endings.
    — Eva Flowe may 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
  • Some of its nerve endings can sense the microbes that live in our guts, tracing the rise and fall of their populations.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
  • It is thought to be triggered by chemicals released from the nerve endings in the skin that are poisonous to the melanocyte skin cells.
    — Emily Kirkpatrick, Peoplemag, 25 May 2023
  • The compound activates nerve endings in the cornea that send a message to the brain translated as pain.
    — Mark Kurlansky, Bon Appétit, 6 Nov. 2023
  • This causes the fluid inside of them to move, which in turn triggers a pain sensation in the nerve endings.
    — New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The experience of pain starts in a nerve ending, and the body detects the pressure and sends a signal to the spinal cord and then the brain.
    — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Piezo, Patapoutian had found, allows nerve endings in the skin to sense pressure, helping to create the sense of touch.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Other nerve endings can recognize the alarm signals that immune cells send to one another.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The implant sits near the carotid sinus, a section of the carotid artery that contains pressure-sensitive nerve endings.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026
  • Areas with thinner skin or more nerve endings, like the upper lip and bikini line, are more sensitive than others, like the legs and back.
    — Iman Balagam, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024
  • And soon their prosthetics will directly interface with nerve endings.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2010
  • Close inspection has revealed that the nerve endings use Piezo proteins to detect changes in pressure in many organs.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Deep burns can destroy the underlying nerve endings and the body goes into shock, limiting the level of pain — in the initial stages.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Mechanoreceptors are just one type of nerve ending in a larger system that controls our sense of touch, called the somatosensory system.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2022
  • When the patch is adhered to the skin and pressed against it, the needles painlessly pierce only the top layer of the skin, not reaching the nerve endings below.
    — New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In some ways the impairment is similar to loss of taste as the nose produces less mucus, which helps keep odors in the nose long enough to be detected by nerve endings.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • However, a tuft of pubic hair is suddenly obstructed by coils of intestine and a plexus of blood vessels and nerve endings.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023

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