pinprick

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Examples

• Starting this month, however, the theater district will start flickering back on, the small pinpricks of light growing bigger and brighter by the week.

• As a result, when the laser is shined on a surface, its light contains a constantly changing pattern of tiny pinpricks that brighten and dim randomly.

• The gap between rhetoric and action was on vivid display this weekend with pinprick U.S. strikes in northern Iraq.

• Besides, to shoot a mere amateur in Chouannerie would be as absurd as to fire on a balloon when a pinprick would disinflate it.

• Suddenly the darkness was pierced by a faint ray of light emanating from a mere pinprick of luminosity.

• Used as he had become, the past two years, to pinpricks of this sort, his colour betrayed how much the present pinprick hurt him.

• The offence itself seemed a pinprick beside the rankle of the wound to her pride.

• The cavalry horses and transport animals suffered from bursati, and even a pinprick expanded into a large open sore.