Pinprick (Noun)
Meaning 2
Small puncture (as if made by a pin).
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The doctor carefully cleaned and bandaged the pinprick on her finger after the accident.
- A small pinprick of blood appeared on his skin where the mosquito had bitten him.
- The pinprick wound on her hand was so tiny that it was almost invisible.
- The nurse gave the child a lollipop to distract her from the pinprick of the vaccination needle.
- After stepping on a thorn, he felt a sharp pinprick of pain in his foot.