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.
