Sentence examples for needles from inspiring English sources

The word "needles" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to thin, sharp tools used for sewing, embroidery and medical purposes. For example, "My grandmother keeps a collection of needles near her sewing machine."

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needles

noun

Plural of needle

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Or visit a park where children can't play because of needles, used condoms, and hooligans hanging around.

I'd come to hate the deep injections of anaesthetic, the needles so long they felt as if they might pierce my brain cavity.

Many women are forced to resort to cheap and unsafe means of abortion such as self-inflicted torture, self-poisoning and inserting sharp objects, like knitting needles, into the vagina.

The restrictions on imports, combined with the high rate of inflation in Argentina's economy, South America's second-largest, have led in recent years to periodic shortages of pharmaceutical products including latex gloves and needles.

Later, while cutting wild mushrooms from a dim, damp forest carpeted in pine needles, Guzman tells me that it has been difficult for his restaurant to gain traction in Chile.

We thread two needles at each end of a piece of cotton, after coating it in beeswax to strengthen it.

I wait for the glue to dry while I prepare my needles.

The High Fidelity types were still concerned with high fidelity, of course; only now, instead of exchanging angry letters about phonograph needles in the back pages of Playboy, they flamed one another over the relative merits of various MP3 byte rates in hundred-page threads on the Oink forums.

In doing so they leave the door wide open to the introduction of the snooper's charter, which involves the mass harvesting of personal communications data and the use of automated data-mining techniques through a "request filter" to sift through the haystack to find the proverbial needles.

We clamp the leather in a wooden vice, a "stitching clam", and using an awl (a small knife) we make holes in the leather along the marks – needles alone aren't enough.

Infected needles paralysed a friend and cost the arm of another.

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