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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pinprick.

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Examples

  • Only one thing remained constant: An endless sheet of pinpricked night.

    A BEDTIME STORY FOR BREEZY • by Kevin Shamel 2009

  • She was furious, but she still carried a vague guilt, a concern that Gavin suspected she had pinpricked her diaphragm.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • Basting every curve and point was painstaking work that left her with pinpricked fingertips and an aching neck, so she took occasional breaks to stretch and to rest her eyes by looking around the garden or the shaded lanai, their future classroom.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • Basting every curve and point was painstaking work that left her with pinpricked fingertips and an aching neck, so she took occasional breaks to stretch and to rest her eyes by looking around the garden or the shaded lanai, their future classroom.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • Her throat is dry and her palms are suddenly pinpricked with sweat.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

  • Basting every curve and point was painstaking work that left her with pinpricked fingertips and an aching neck, so she took occasional breaks to stretch and to rest her eyes by looking around the garden or the shaded lanai, their future classroom.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • She was furious, but she still carried a vague guilt, a concern that Gavin suspected she had pinpricked her diaphragm.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • Her throat is dry and her palms are suddenly pinpricked with sweat.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

  • Her throat is dry and her palms are suddenly pinpricked with sweat.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

  • Her throat is dry and her palms are suddenly pinpricked with sweat.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

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