| The star can also feel a pinprick over most of his body and can distinguish between hot and cold, and sharp and dull sensations. |
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| Our selling point is that it requires only a tiny pinprick and it isn't as sore. |
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| On Jupiter, it blows material clear out of the atmosphere but is nevertheless a mere pinprick to the giant planet. |
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| And while Gammell's most recent find in India eases the pressure, it is a pinprick in terms of global needs. |
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| Our economy is so huge that the scenes of destruction, awesome as they are, are only a pinprick. |
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| Suddenly, in the black night sky, a pinprick of light is spotted off the nose of the plane. |
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| It doesn't diminish the summit of breathtaking Ben Nevis that you can see the pinprick of a Safeway and McDonald's from the top. |
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| We made love in the cheery, blinking lights, and I gave her a ring with a little pinprick of a diamond in it. |
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| Her heels sank into the plushy carpet and left little pinprick holes in the carpet weave as she pasted. |
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| Stepping carefully from the end of the tunnel into near total darkness Reed followed a pinprick of light. |
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| The petals are speckled with tiny holes smaller than a pinprick, a feature which provides its Latin name Hypericum perforatum. |
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| He listened to her song while the water droplets sprayed from the shower to hit the floor with pinprick splats. |
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| A trickle of green blood oozed from the malachite-green hide, but it was little more than a pinprick. |
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| Images are exposed directly onto light-sensitive paper through a tiny lens the size of a pinprick. |
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| A sharp pinprick or pain stabbed through my left hand, and I jumped, looking down to see the largest mosquito in the world. |
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| Sabotage could range from pinprick attacks on individual weapons or machines to full-scale onslaughts on formed bodies of troops. |
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| The country night was one of an almost impenetrable darkness, accentuated by the occasional faint pinprick of light. |
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| Any tear in the insulation, any pinprick in his pressure suit or parachute malfunction, could kill him. |
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| Each pulse on your skin feels like a tingling or pinprick, with very little discomfort. |
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| The gap between rhetoric and action was on vivid display this weekend with pinprick U.S. strikes in northern Iraq. |
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| It was as if you had twenty-twenty vision, and someone said, 'Here's an extra pair of glasses.' Everything was pinprick sharp. |
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| A test strip is put into the device and a drop of blood is applied from a tiny pinprick. |
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| Mr. Skinner, you said the light at the end of the tunnel is a pinprick, and yet you serve on the committee that is trying to get somewhere. |
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| Given their attachment to Kosovo, the Serbs may not roll over if they just face a few pinprick air strikes. |
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| This can be a large opening, such as a surgical incision, or it can be a pinprick opening created by a needle. |
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| Nexus is a polyester knit in a sleek and stylish pinprick dot matrix design effect giving a granulated structured surface. |
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| Each pinprick lasts barely three seconds, and is slightly uncomfortable rather than painful, especially on the forehead, where the skin is very thin. |
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| But Anna believed the test, which uses the blood pinprick given to all babies, would have prevented Sonny becoming a financial burden on the health service. |
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| Each galaxy appears as just a pinprick but its brightness allows astronomers to determine the rate of star birth within it. |
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| The first needle is pushed in gently and I am aware of a slight pinprick. |
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| It is recommended that a pinprick be made in the packet and the cream squeezed out. |
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| Last night a senior air force officer described the bombing of the sites as a minor operation, a pinprick raid which accomplished what it set out to achieve. |
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| These kits require only a single pinprick of blood to test total cholesterol levels. |
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| It was a minor pinprick in his side that his plan had not succeeded. |
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| Locate the selected tie-point and pinprick the location on the field photo. |
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| We peer through pinprick peepholes in the night sky, at stars that don't exist anymore. |
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| And polyglot programs are a pinprick in a vast industry. |
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| With regard to sensory functions, the physician will assess your sense of touch and give you pinprick and vibration tests to check whether sensitivity has been decreased or increased, or if there is pain in the arms and legs. |
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| The feeling is similar to the pinprick you feel when you give blood. |
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| Common symptoms of meningococcal septicaemia include aching limbs, cold hands and feet and a rash which starts like pinprick marks and develops into bruising. |
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