Sentence examples for found a needle from inspiring English sources

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Later – much later – the "some" came back to me, but in the short term there were those venesections to cope with: a tourniquet would have to be applied, a vein found, a needle stuck through dermis and vascular wall … and then, no payback, no flushed warm gush of lotus-juice or essence of lethe, only the siphoning of my deathly blood.

Dr Jack Drogt describes the moment he found a needle in his mouth.

How many times had he found a needle in a haystack, just to satisfy His creatures' appetite for metaphors or proverbs!

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"It's almost like trying to find a needle in a haystack," Mr. Gowers said.

They were groping in the darkness with their hands trying to find a needle and syringe.

Finding a teacher who doesn't feel stressed is possibly like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

SUPPOSE you really had to find a needle in a haystack.

In purely practical terms, when you are trying to find a needle you don't build a bigger haystack.

If so, we would spend eight days traveling across the North Pacific to go find a needle in a haystack.

Learning about crucial journalism issues at the White House Correspondents Dinner and associated parties can feel like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

According to Frank Partnoy of the University of San Diego: "Before you were trying to find a needle in a haystack [but] at least you could see the needle gleaming.

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