Sentence examples for trying to needle from inspiring English sources
"He's looking for leverage with the Chinese and he's trying to needle them.
Perhaps trying to needle you, pin you down.... Oh, bother, you know what I mean.
"The idea that somehow I was trying to needle the Democrats, it's just — gosh — it's probably Texas," he said.
Why Manchester City's executive chairman is trying to needle Mark Hughes so early on in the pair's working relationship is unclear, but Garry Cook knew what would make his manager bristle.
Remember trying to needle your parents into a better allowance?
My husband visited the doctor for his annual physical and went through the motions of carrying liquids in a cup down the hallway and having blood drawn while carrying on that awkward conversation that occurs when trying to ignore needles piercing your skin.
21 This practice leads to high NSI incidence and we found HCWs performing hazardous injection practices of (A) bending or breaking the needle and (b) trying to recap the needle to have 4.9 and 5.7 times increased risk of presence of HBsAg and antibodies against hepatitis C in their blood.
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.
Throw in the fact that these are global serial numbers, and it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack, except that there are 21 million other needles in there that you don't want.
"We were all trying to thread a needle".
"It's almost like trying to find a needle in a haystack," Mr. Gowers said.
