'on the needle' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a sharp object that is being used for a specific purpose. For example, "The doctor administered the vaccine on the needle."
But he was soon back on the needle.
"I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle.
But EpiPen is protected by patents on the device, particularly the safety cap on the needle.
The coaxial needle separates the cutting force at the needle tip from shear friction on the needle shaft.
The results showed that temperature and pressure play the most important roles depending on the needle gauge used.
The top of this plate, the verge, defines the level of the completed loops on the needle shank.
But I heard her when she said the venesections – the beginning of a lifetime on the needle – needed to begin right away, that morning, at once.
When I was not accelerating and everything was at rest, ma was 0, w was mg, and w was the reading on the needle.
I spent half the night in a hammock he had lent me, and half of it down on the needle carpet, where it smelt of sap and resin.
Devastation was all around: his contemporaries, out on Lenox Avenue, were steadily going to jail or else were on "the needle".
The author of more than 25 workbooks on the needle arts, she travels throughout the United States, teaching and lecturing for groups like the American Needlepoint Guild.
