How to Use pinhead in a Sentence

pinhead

noun

• The insect is the size of a pinhead.
• Her boss is a real pinhead.
• If the Sun's the size of a soccer ball, then the Earth is a tiny pinhead.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2016
• To get some scale for the image, their dazzling red caps are just the size of a pinhead.
  — New Atlas, 16 July 2024
• Nits are the size of a pinhead, and appear whitish or yellow.
  — Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2019
• Nits are the size of a pinhead, and appear whitish or yellow.
  — Mariko Zapf, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2017
• Nits are the size of a pinhead, and appear whitish or yellow.
  — Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2019
• Nits are the size of a pinhead, and appear whitish or yellow.
  — Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 27 Aug. 2020
• Nits are the size of a pinhead, and appear whitish or yellow.
  — Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2019
• Nits are the size of a pinhead, and appear whitish or yellow.
  — Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2019
• Nits are the size of a pinhead, and appear whitish or yellow.
  — Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2019
• Exposure to as much as a pinhead of the substance will lead to death in 36 to 72 hours.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
• The predators, each no bigger than a pinhead, come to their senses and zigzag out of the vial.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
• Aphids — which are about the size of a pinhead — invaded pecan trees.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2022
• The biggest scourge to bees is tiny—a mite the size of a pinhead that feeds on them and spreads deadly viruses.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 June 2021
• These small cherry-red bumps can range from the size of a pinhead to a pencil eraser.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• The company built a robot that fires a laser to open a hole in the shell much smaller than a pinhead.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 14 Aug. 2019
• Exposure to as little as a pinhead amount of ricin can cause death.
  — Fox News, 7 Nov. 2024
• Indigo and onion progeny are tiny, about the size of a pinhead.
  — Latria Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• Below this sieve is a fine-mesh sieve that captures fossil bits down to 0.02 inch in size (smaller than a pinhead).
  — Kristina A. Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
• Below this sieve is a fine-mesh sieve that captures fossil bits down to 0.02 inch in size (smaller than a pinhead).
  — Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• The beads were about the size of pinheads, and archaeologists had to remove each one from the soil block using tweezers.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• The growths are one to five millimeters, or about the size of a pinhead to less than one-fourth of an inch.2 Shape: Cherry angiomas are usually dome-shaped.
  — Sarah Fielding, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• These sorts of deals sometimes happened between two drunk pinheads in a tent in the evening, sipping gin and getting a map out and drawing lines across a map.
  — Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2014
• The X-ray object was located to somewhere inside the white circle, which is about the size a pinhead 100m away would appear.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• Among their squashes: Grumpkin, who looks grumpy, and Drunkin, whose long pinhead looks tipsy.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022
• Bed bug eggs are white and about the size of a pinhead.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2026
• Once manufactured, a pinhead of fentanyl powder is enough to kill someone.
  — Joanna Conti, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2026
• To check yourself for fleas, look for tiny brown bugs that are the size of a pinhead.
  — Carrie Madormo, Health, 10 Sep. 2025
• Tick larvae, which are translucent and the size of a pinhead, can also bite.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025