needle
Example Sentences
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I stopped cold in the middle of the hall as goose bumps ran up my arms, prickling like needles along my neck, because it hadn’t been dumb luck.
From Literature
The aesthetics program director told Adeli to smile big before pressing a needle of Botox into the skin around her outer eye.
While these types of exhibitions are often an exercise in hunting for an aesthetic needle in a mind-numbing haystack, the quality here is surprisingly consistent with happy discoveries around almost every corner.
"It felt like I had a needle through my back, and it was coming out my front, and I couldn't twist past it," she said.
From BBC
When Vernice tries to persuade Annie to aim higher, she is reproached by her friend: “Stop acting like me and you knit with the same needles.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
