1. And above, the pinpricks of light wheeling on.

2. These problems were pinpricks compared with what was to come.

3. His eyes narrowed to two small pinpricks of black.

4. The river was alive with pinpricks of light.

5. More pinpricks of light were moving down there.

6. Her cheeks were assailed by minute pinpricks of fire.

7. You have to ignore the pinpricks and just get on with the job.

8. A thousand pinpricks of scalding steam grew to knife-points and the knives twisted.

9. Nausea and tiredness were mere pinpricks compared to the emotional pain she was feeling.

10. Though we may momentarily feel warmth, discomfort or shame, our emotions are rarely more than pinpricks.

11. I have spent my adult life here but because of little pinpricks I feel I don't belong.

12. Yet nausea and bone-weariness were mere pinpricks compared to the emotional upheaval she was going through.

13. Their bare flesh is heavily decorated with tattoos made by their women with the dye of madder and woad, using the pinpricks of bone needles.