needle

Definition:
1. As of a conifer.
2. A slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument.
3. A sharp pointed implement (usually steel.
4. A stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record.
5. Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism.
6. Prick with a needle.

Use 'needle' in a sentence:

• 1. The needles that indicate your height are at the top right-hand corner.
• 2. It's like finding a needle in a haystack.
• 3. Watch how the needle on the dial oscillates.
• 4. Searching for one man in this city is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
• 5. That doctor is very good at giving needle treatment.
• 6. Decades passed without my touching a knitting needle.
• 7. They sent in loads of male nurses and stuck a needle in my back.
• 8. Where is the needle, Hans?
• 9. At 240 mph the needle went off the clock.
• 10. She took the needle off the record and turned the lights out.
• 11. I hyperventilate when they come near me with the needle.
• 12. She kept looking at the dial on the boiler. The needle had reached 250 degrees.
• 13. You should have stuck the needle in your sleeve.
• 14. The needle on the dial went right around to fifty feet, which was as far as it could go, and there it stuck.
• 15. I'm very squeamish and when I see needles I run a mile.
• 16. This called the tailor bird uses its mouth as a needle.
• 17. The needle jumped across the dial.
• 18. The tailor delicately plied his needle.
• 19. I checked to see if the needle indicating volume was oscillating.
• 20. She grimaced as the needle went in.
• 21. A needle was jabbed into the baby's arm.
• 22. This material is very thick and this needle is not strong enough to go through it.
• 23. I had pins and needles in the tips of my fingers.
• 24. Her mother counted the stitches on her knitting needles.
• 25. I hunt around the arcade, eyes peeled for a dirty needle.
• 26. He withdrew the needle and placed a pad of cotton over the spot.
• 27. There's a needle and cotton there.
• 28. The only difficult part was threading the cotton through the eye of the needle!
• 29. This time I'll do it properly with a needle and thread.
• 30. I sit down, thread a needle, snip off an old button.
• 31. The thread kept getting caught around the needle.
• 32. He took a needle and thread and sewed it up.
• 33. The needle on the rev counter soared.
• 34. I'm going to give your finger a little prick with this needle.
• 35. She pricked her finger on a needle.
• 36. She passed the needle through the rough cloth, back and forth.
• 37. My eyes burn from staring at the needle.
• 38. When the needle enters the red zone the engine is too hot.
• 39. Then decades passed without my touching a knitting needle.
• 40. Don't let her needle you.
• 41. The compass needle was pointing north.
• 42. A compass needle points north.
• 43. The nurse stuck the needle into my arm.
• 44. It is like fishing for a needle in the ocean.