Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The prick of a pin; hence, figuratively, an intentional trifling irritation.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
pinprick .
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Examples
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Back when this story took place, he'd the same beak nose of a bird of prey, the same beady eyes with pin-prick pupils, the same scrawny neck to angle his head this way and that, to size up a Scruffian just Fixed or all set for a Scrubbing.
A Reminder Hal Duncan 2010
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Then let's say she looks and really sees him: his smooth and tender hands; the gentle cross-stitch of his brow, and say that there, in the rich emptiness of her longing, comes the pin-prick tingle of sudden recognition, the realisation that nothing in the physical world could bring her satisfaction.
One Slow Dance with Buddha Sally Houtman 2011
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There was a click and a tiny pin-prick of red lit up, followed immediately by a mechanical howl as the robot lunged out of the undergrowth.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Back when this story took place, he'd the same beak nose of a bird of prey, the same beady eyes with pin-prick pupils, the same scrawny neck to angle his head this way and that, to size up a Scruffian just Fixed or all set for a Scrubbing.
The Scruffians Project: The Beast of Buskerville Hal Duncan 2010
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Searching for a hole, by the pin-prick light in your eyes.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles Robert Vaughan 2011
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Back when this story took place, he'd the same beak nose of a bird of prey, the same beady eyes with pin-prick pupils, the same scrawny neck to angle his head this way and that, to size up a Scruffian just Fixed or all set for a Scrubbing.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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After a hymn, the homily, and a prayer, my toes, curled inside my shoes, began to prickle with white-hot pin-prick pain.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust Tracy L 2010
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He looks out the viewport at the pin-prick stars wheeling against the void, bright and steady and changeless.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Big guns and destroyers are incapable of covering the necessary vast ocean expanses in which the relatively low-tech pirates operate, can't respond quickly enough to pin-prick attacks, and ultimately aren't likely to intimidate what Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has quite correctly termed "a bunch of teenage pirates" with little to lose.
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I suggest you google the term; "Intersectionality" a concept which has muc to do with this particular pin-prick of yours.
Jonathan Strahan must have a small rocket... Patrick 2009
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