[
UK
/pˈɪnpɹɪk/
]
[ US /ˈpɪnpɹɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪnpɹɪk/ ]
NOUN
- small puncture (as if made by a pin)
- a minor annoyance
How To Use pinprick In A Sentence
- His condemnation of violence and wealth, of government repression and church hypocrisy, brought him administrative pinpricks and excommunication.
- The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd. The Curse of the Wendigo
- Only one thing remained constant: An endless sheet of pinpricked night. A BEDTIME STORY FOR BREEZY • by Kevin Shamel
- On Jupiter, it blows material clear out of the atmosphere but is nevertheless a mere pinprick to the giant planet.
- At night, light from the interior radiates out in thousands of shimmering pinpricks, like a spectacularly illuminated porcupine.
- Timon's eyes narrowed to pinpricks, and his face grew dark.
- The man drew on his cigarette and exhaled, his porcine eyes shrinking to pinpricks as they fixed themselves on Abel. AMAGANSETT
- He can feel about two-thirds of the normal sensation of being touched and half of the usual intensity of pinpricks.
- Do these actions - pinpricks on the hides of huge corporate behemoths - have any broader meaning?
- She was furious, but she still carried a vague guilt, a concern that Gavin suspected she had pinpricked her diaphragm. Strangers at the Feast