How to Use needle in a Sentence

needle

1 of 2 noun

• I need a needle and thread to sew the button on your shirt.
• The needle on the scale points to 9 grams.
• The compass needle points north.
• Step 2: Move the needle around inside the shell to break the yolk.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 28 Mar. 2023
• Those 7-2s are the types of spurts that move the needle in the standings.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
• The truth is pine needles do not make the soil more acidic.
  — oregonlive, 18 July 2023
• The long twine of a decade, hold the tattoo needle to skin and sew habibti.
  — Hala Alyan, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• All of this amounts to threading a very tricky needle for the Padres.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
• In the late 1860s, Goodyear acquired the rights to a machine with a curved needle that sped up the process.
  — The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
• Feel the balance in the narrow boat, shaped like a needle.
  — John Branch Adam Stoltman, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• Fake needles were also found in some of the samples seized by the FDA.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 1 Feb. 2024
• Then, the doctor will use a thin needle to make the injections on all parts of the lips.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2023
• Her friend died at the age of 64 from a drug overdose, a needle found under her bed.
  — The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2024
• With 9 inches of space between the needle and the body of the machine, there’s ample room to work.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023
• During the early returns, the needle at the New York Times was bouncing all over the place.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• The needles are believed to be from the 13th century, and may have been part of a corpse's clothing.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024
• Using a punch needle, poke holes throughout the baseball cap and cut off the brim.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2023
• Most at-home blood test kits come with a needle and testing card.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 6 May 2023
• Some had needles still stuck in them like pin cushions.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
• Pine Straw: Bales of pine needles are lightweight, easy to carry and spread.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2024
• Back at the cabin, the girls work together to hold her down while one draws a curved needle through her cheek to stitch the wound.
  — Lydia Kiesling, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• Celebrity endorsements have moved the needle in the past.
  — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• But then the Celtics poked the balloon with a needle, made their first five shots, and needed just a few minutes to take a 10-point lead.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• Secure the planets to yarn with the needle and thread up through remaining eight holes.
  — Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
• Though, the tester noted that a few needles did fall during setup.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 May 2023
• Got a better way to shop to save money and find a needle in the haystack of online retailers?
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2023
• The free exhibition features 20 tiny sculptures, each of which sits in the eye of a needle.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• And right now, there are needles on that dashboard that are moving in the wrong direction.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2024
• Right now, President Biden is trying to thread the needle.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• An easy test to find out how fresh the tree is is to gently pull a branch between your thumb and fingers; a fresh tree should lose no needles in the process.
  — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 12 Nov. 2023

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needle

2 of 2 verb

• His classmates needled him about his new haircut.
• Once a Rays coach, Baldelli didn't let the chance to needle his old boss pass.
  — Jerry Zgoda, Star Tribune, 1 Mar. 2021
• Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin seized the chance to needle the Gators, tweeting a photo of the game with the score 7-7.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023
• The mayor then dodged a question about whether the governor had been needling him.
  — William Neuman and J. David Goodman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• Does this give the younger brother a chance to needle his older sibling?
  — Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
• And yet, the blog’s headlines seem designed to needle readers.
  — Khe Hy, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2020
• Fans didn’t wait until the start of matches Thursday to needle him.
  — Doug Ferguson, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• Haden eyes the crowd and begins to sing slowly over a high, needling drone from guitarist Jack Wetmore, 27.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
• But now more and more pet owners are turning to needle power to help cure their cats and dogs.
  — Houston Chronicle, 6 July 2018
• Chavez then needled him for refusing to fight the bigger Golovkin.
  — Mike Cranston, The Denver Post, 6 May 2017
• He’s been seen needling some black yarn together on top of the slopestyle and halfpipe courses here — without gloves by the way.
  — Laken Litman, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2018
• Maher didn't miss a chance to needle her with one of Trump's own epithets.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Esquire, 6 June 2017
• One of my mother’s drinking cronies, a needling terror of a woman, stumbled over to us.
  — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• The judge also needled Prows about Safe Embarcadero’s claims that the center would attract crime to the dense, tourist-heavy area.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Nick is already needled that Adams stood him up for coffee that morning and yells at Adams to get his meds right.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 5 May 2023
• The president and his allies sent giddy tweets needling his accusers and Democrats.
  — Author: Jonathan Lemire and Zeke Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2020
• Your needling her to tell you what’s wrong is only going to require more energy from her, not less.
  — Sophia Benoit, GQ, 20 June 2018
• For his part, Musk has needled Ocasio-Cortez about her anti-billionaire rhetoric and joked about the prospect of dating her.
  — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2023
• Steve Hellyer, Oregon’s publicist for much of the Brooks era, used to needle Cowan about it.
  — OregonLive.com, 23 May 2017
• Her caddie sometimes needles her for getting wax on the zippers.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• But that has not stopped Fox News from trying to needle the late night establishment.
  — Stephen Battaglio Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
• Also by needling Germany, the most powerful member of the bloc, which, Poland says, owes it war reparations.
  — Marek Strzelecki, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Along with Derrick Brown, Thomas is one of Davidson’s favorite people to needle.
  — Giana Han, al, 23 Apr. 2020
• Following the Rules Trump has needled Sanders voters by playing up claims that the process is rigged against the Vermont senator.
  — Laura Litvan, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• Take a good long look at the Chrysler Building needling over the skyline, because that view is going away — maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 28 July 2017
• Cedric needled Corden about how the host reads jokes somebody else has written for him, then exited.
  — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2020
• Before the foreskin serum is applied, Louise preps skin with peels, a micro-needling wand, and an electrifying mask.
  — Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 14 Mar. 2018
• O’Neill said Charlie is likely to keep charging into his 4-year-old season to needle his elite gate-mates for at least one more lap.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2021
• There are thousands of cold cases in New York City, needling reminders of unfinished business.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• Putin prefers to needle, to provoke, and test his opponents’ redlines or readiness.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024