Sentence examples for pushing a needle from inspiring English sources

For Hatchette, just getting on the field, getting past Moss and Carter, seemed as tough as pushing a needle through a brick.

Pushing a needle with blood-red thread through scars in his own flesh, he sewed the thread through the clothing of the three people in the audience seated nearest him.

Sure, we may look different, live in different places, have different names, but really all we'll ever be is a crazed bavarian surgeon pushing a needle through the lips of a Japanese man and hooking it, thread and all, into the puckered chute of another sentience.

Nick has asked one of the two nurses working beside him to curl Alice up into a little ball, tucking her legs up under her tummy so he can push a needle into her tiny spinal cord.

Whenever hand-sewing instructions direct you to push a needle through fabric, make sure that you are wearing a thimble to prevent needle pricks that may occur as you exert a force against the head of a needle that is strong enough to force the needle through fabric.

Maybe a bee stinging it is like pushing a knitting needle through candy floss?

A biopsy sample was obtained by holding a skinfold with one hand and pushing a biopsy needle through a small incision site into subcutaneous abdominal fat.

He sews neat patches cut from car tyres or old boots over the holes, pushing a heavy-duty needle through the layers with an iron thumb.

It's very difficult to push a tattooing needle in too deeply because of the design of the needle will keep it from happening, but you do need to make sure it goes deep enough, at least a few millimeters.

Cells were swollen in a hypotonic buffer, mechanically broken by pushing through a needle, and extracted with 1% Triton X-100.

At the time, hospitals in East Germany didn't have CT scanners, so the alternative was to push a hollow needle into her spinal cord in order to collect spinal fluid.