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  •     When two people say Goodbye in a parked Jeep Grand Cherokee on a star-freckled January night, and the air-conditioned air is thick with kisses unkissed, and his index finger gently strokes her goosepimpled knee and he turns off the air conditioner without a word, goodbye suddenly becomes Goodbye-with-a-captial-G, and to say it means they will miss each other.

    Is This Something? 2010

  • Many a celebrity would have treated a Christmas lights switching-on ceremony as yet another opportunity to show some goosepimpled flesh, but not Alison.

    Fashion Statement: Why are fashion designers grabbing the spotlight? Kate Carter 2010

  • And, god, the way they peeled off of your ass with a sound, a sound for christ sake, a goosepimpled sound I liked to cover with kisses and drink in.

    Panties 2010

  • My skin goosepimpled violently and threatened to jump off my bones to hide in the dressing room.

    - ceecue 2009

  • Now you're going to get offended when Dems don't suddenly go gaga and goosepimpled b/c that boner Bill Frist wants to 'work something out'?

    Sound Politics: Maria Cantwell Plays to Stereotype 2006

  • You see them staggering around between pubs, white, goosepimpled bingo wings flapping in the icy wind.

    Spare us the Compulsory Fun Ms Robinson 2007

  • Rubbing his goosepimpled arms, he looked around for clothing of any sort, even if it was only a surgical robe.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • 'Well, the next thing I knew I was in a taxi wi' four tough little Scottish birds wi 'white minis an' bare goosepimpled legs, an 'I never saw one o' them that didn't have a fag on the go, even when later on I were shaggin '' em.

    High Society Elton, Ben 2002

  • The voice tells me to stay under the hole, so I obey it, and once I've been rinsed I'm rewarded by a long blast of hot air that warms and dries my goosepimpled skin.

    A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997

  • We swam in the chilly North Sea, emerging pale and goosepimpled, to a rough towel and a well-deserved shivery-bite.

    The Guardian World News 2010

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