NEEDLE in a Sentence

Learn NEEDLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
95 example sentences for NEEDLE, such as:
1. She jabbed the needle into her finger.
2. I gave my finger a prick with a needle.
3. The nurse stuck the needle into my arm.
4. She pricked her finger on/with a needle.
5. He pierced the rubber ball with a needle.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of NEEDLE
needle
 n.  the leaf of a conifer
 n.  a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  Mattie blushed to the roots of her hair and pulled her needle rapidly twice or thrice through her work, insensibly drawing the end of it away from him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  She was busy with needle and scissors, altering a mourning dress that Mrs. Elsing had lent to Mrs. Meade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  Mose mended the uniform and I thought he did very well, considering that he'd never had a needle in his hand before the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  And how brave and silly to try her hand at making money by her needle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  Handling her needle awkwardly, she jabbed it into her thumb and with a little scream of pain and annoyance that made them all jump, she squeezed it until a bright red drop appeared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  It's harder for speculators' money to get into the best parlors than for the camel to go through the needle's eye.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
7  She held a line of tatting in her hands and she was driving the shining needle back and forth as furiously as though handling a rapier in a duel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
8  But only by the flashing needle and the delicate brows drawn down toward her nose did Melanie indicate that she was inwardly seething.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
9  She mercifully had combs, mirrors, brushes, needle and thread ready.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  They were thick, roughened with needle and hot iron and plow-handle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
12  Though the body was erect, the head was thrown back so that the closed eyes were pointed towards the needle of the tell-tale that swung from a beam in the ceiling.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
13  The magnetic energy, as developed in the mariner's needle, is, as all know, essentially one with the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much marvelled at, that such things should be.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
14  Grandmother chuckled and drove her bright needle across a hole in Otto's sock.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
15  I had to do something with my hands; so I took up a needle off of the table and went to threading it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Once already heals by the needle jianzha broken fingertip, whose horizon have you gone to.
2  The nurse stuck the needle into my arm.
3  The audience loved his performance and the needle on the clapometer shot up.
4  He pierced the rubber ball with a needle.
5  We like the needle on the surface, keep turning, turn, a time left in a hurry, powerless.
6  The doctor stuck my finger with a needle to get blood sample.
7  I hyperventilate when they come near me with the needle.
8  The doctor jabbed the needle into the dog's leg.
9  I gave my finger a prick with a needle.
10  She jabbed the needle into her finger.
11  The needle left a prick in the tailor's finger.
12  She pricked her finger on/with a needle.
13  The needle pierces the fabric four times a second.
14  The girl threaded the needle for her mother.
15  She pricked herself when passing a thread through the hole of a needle.