Sentence examples for needle them from inspiring English sources
"He's looking for leverage with the Chinese and he's trying to needle them.
Now there's film out there that shows how to needle them at the intermediate levels and on the ground.
He would often come to visit Chimen and my grandmother Miriam (Mimi to us kids), and, on occasion, to needle them.
A widespread notion has emerged that says the prison service constantly monitors lifers, making meticulous notes about their emotional cycles, so they can needle them when they're at their weakest.
Even though he was working this time with clued-in co-stars — as opposed to setting traps for gullible politicians, celebrities and bigots — he would still needle them to elicit the desired reaction.
And why is he constantly needling them?
She or her companion, Fiona, can usually be found near Lou, who flirts with them tirelessly and needles them to take him bird-watching.
Rodrique Morara, 59, a retired truck driver who lives across from the Boys and Girls School, where the group stopped to look at an American birch tree, gently needled them.
And Oliver stays just on the friendly side of the line: he's not telling the Huffington Post et al to stop sharing his clips every Monday, but rather needling them for doing it so eagerly.
In early October, he called for large troop concentrations in Missouri, Louisville, western Virginia and Cincinnati, pushing Halleck and Buell to seize a crucial rail juncture between Tennessee and Virginia and later needling them to invade western Kentucky and Knoxville simultaneously.
