How to Use pins and needles in a Sentence

pins and needles

plural noun

• Who kept you on pins and needles like him?
  — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
• The sight was thrilling; pins and needles rushed up my spine.
  — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Feb. 2025
• Then my face went numb, like pins and needles when a limb falls asleep.
  — Will Rice, Outside, 13 Nov. 2025
• All the right eyes are on you, waiting on pins and needles for your next move!
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
• The city was on pins and needles—plus, a tropical storm was on the way.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020
• Aimee Allison has been waiting on pins and needles for this day to come.
  — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
• Cam switched to another treatment that gave him constant pins and needles in his hands.
  — Olivia Jordan Cornelius, Outside Online, 15 July 2024
• Stakeholders waiting on pins and needles on the high court’s decision will have to wait a bit longer.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 20 Jan. 2026
• For the next couple of days, Rohan and the jewellers waited on pins and needles.
  — Tori Telfer, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• Game of Thrones fans are waiting on pins and needles for the battle between the living and the dead.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 22 Apr. 2019
• Maybe your foot feels like pins and needles halfway through your elliptical session.
  — Amber Brenza, SELF, 8 Sep. 2023
• For the next couple of days, Rohan and the jewelers waited on pins and needles.
  — Tori Telfer, refinery29.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• This includes the use of electrocution, and the drilling of pins and needles underneath nails or the soles of the feet.
  — Mohit Rao, CNN, 2 Dec. 2020
• Hellraiser fans on pins and needles for a trailer have finally gotten their wish.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
• No one wants to add tech neck to their ailments, and this gadget avoids that (and the pins and needles feeling in your arm) completely.
  — Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
• No one wants to add tech neck to their ailments, and this gadget avoids that (and the pins and needles feeling in your arm) completely.
  — Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
• Some women experience a pins and needles sensation in their arms, legs, hands and feet.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 13 Feb. 2026
• Numbness, tingling, or pins and needles can sometimes be a sign of something serious.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 26 Jan. 2023
• For the almost two years since, fans have been on pins and needles to hear how Shires would use her next album to express what her life has been like.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
• For the past several months, Marvel fans have been on pins and needles waiting for all the inevitable delays.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 18 Oct. 2021
• Some may experience paresthesia, or the sensation of pins and needles in the legs.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
• That can include weakness, numbness or a sensation like pins and needles on one side of the body or face, trouble speaking, and slurred speech.
  — Sara Lindberg, SELF, 22 Feb. 2022
• Most of the time, the feet and hands burn and sting as if they were being stuck with pins and needles, and then slowly, usually over years, sensation dies.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2022
• The leaves were employed as an impenetrable thatch for dwellings, their hard fibers were used to produce strong cords, and the thorns were made into pins and needles.
  — Janet Marinelli, Wired, 19 Feb. 2022
• All of Douglass’s sons lived in the shadow of their famous father, an old story, to be sure, but living on pins and needles isn’t fun to see.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
• Daniels and her lawyer were on pins and needles while the jury deliberated for more than 10 hours, Brewster said.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
• All Stars is definitely more cutthroat, everybody's on pins and needles.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• Yasuda is on pins and needles, assuming that the power players are meeting to eventually fire her.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 5 May 2023
• Cameron has also been hedging his bets in the press with regard to Avatar 4 and 5, so Bliss is on pins and needles like everybody else.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
• If the administration’s goal was to put immigrants on pins and needles, that has likely already been accomplished.
  — Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 27 May 2026