Use needle in a sentence
Sentences ending with needle
- It was difficult to thread the needle. [10]
- Louis Trudel had rule and measure, shears and a needle. [11]
- Euphrasia, when she paused in her bodily activity to darn their stockings, used to glance at them covertly from time to time, and many a silent tear of which they knew nothing fell on her needle. [9]
- They've got the needle. [11]
- I found the needle. [11]
- She saw herself in imagination travelling along the highway with nimble jugglers merry musicians, and other care-free vagrant folk, instead of plying the needle. [10]
- What I do, I do as straight as a needle. [11]
- It's that which hurts so now, little Ian Stafford--not so much fire as would burn on the point of a needle. [11]
- Howbeit, when we had threatened the now barefoot knave with cruel torture, he confessed that, having been an honest tailor till of late, he had soft feet by reason that he had ever sat over his needle. [10]
- While he was busy I abstracted the needle. [11]
Sentences containing needle two or more times
- One said that "true as the needle to the pole" was a bad figure, since the needle seldom pointed to the pole. [5]
More example sentences with the word needle in them
- You may take your turn with my shears and needle one day. [11]
- For a moment you could have heard a pine needle drop on the stoop. [9]
- Observe the blood which is trickling from her finger; also the gold-eyed needle of the period, with which she is at work. [12]
- It matters little whether the needle prick him by accident or blunder or design, he will burst all bounds, and establish again the old truth that each of us will prove himself a fool given perfect opportunity. [11]
- Poor Leos, who was somewhere in the crowd, looking as attentively as if he was searching for a needle in a haystack; here is stood, wondering to himself why Ambulinia was not there. [5]
- And so I walked in, although it seemed as if my shirt was made of needle points and my hair stood on end. [9]
- The spray feathered up to her sails, the sun caught her on deck and beam; she was running dead for the needle of rock. [11]
- I was being tortured with Mr. Mappin's needle horribly by--guess whom? [11]
- Myrtle knew how to use her needle, and always had a dexterous way of shaping any article of dress or ornament,--a natural gift not very rare, but sometimes very needful, as it was now. [6]
- There is nothing to be done but to polarize the needle over again. [6]
- I'm quite sure the world thinks I'm one of your spent flames, and there never was any fire, not so big as the point of a needle, was there? [11]
- Not even upon the staff of the flag--for that, a needle in the distance at any time, was now untouched by the light and undistinguishable in the gloom. [5]
- Is it possible the poor thing works with her needle, too? [6]
- I have driven the needle under my nail! [5]
- Not Gaspard, but the needle rock replied. [11]
- The woman alternated the needle at night and the tub in the daytime. [4]
- I put down the needle and thread, and let on to be interested --and I was, too--and says: "Three hundred dollars is a power of money. [5]
- I cannot describe the emotions which surged like tidal waves through my breast when I saw the moon glide behind that lofty needle and pass it by without exposing more than two feet four inches of her upper rim above it; I was secure, then. [5]
- Will the needle swing back from the east or the west? [6]
- These were signs, surely, which the wise might have read with profit: in the offices, for instance, of the Honourable Hilary Vane in Ripton Square, where seismic disturbances were registered; but the movement of the needle (to the Honourable Hilary's eye) was almost imperceptible. [9]
- Then he added, slowly: "Do you remember Mr. Mappin and his poisoned needle at Glencader? [11]
- He came near sharing the fate of Brigond, for the yawl grazed the needle of the rock that, hiding away in the water, with a nose out for destruction, awaits its victims. [11]
- She heard the scrunch of his heels upon the gravel, the clank of his sword upon the rocks, and looked up with a flush, her needle poised; for none should know of her presence in this place save her father. [11]
- He remembered the reefs, but he did not know of the needle of rock. [11]
- The Frankfort messenger put down the needle with which he was mending the badgerskin in his knapsack. [10]
- You are going pretty far in suggesting that Fellowes took your needle to kill some one else. [11]
- Turning the needle over in his palm, he examined it carefully. [11]
- He had drawn on his coat and lifted his hat, and now lounged, trying the point of the needle with his forefinger. [11]
- There's a needle of rock in the bay. [11]
- Throughout the month of April the needle kept up its persistent registering, and the Honourable Hilary continued to smile. [9]
- All this had not suffered him to rest on his tailor's bench till he had laid down the needle and seized the cook's great roasting spit. [10]
- She caught the needle quickly from the finger, wrapped her kerchief round the wound, threw away the sewing from Guida's lap, and running an arm about her waist, made as if to lay a hot cheek against the cold brow of her friend. [11]
- Presently a verdure-clad needle of stone, a thousand feet high, stepped out from behind a corner, and mounted guard over the mysteries of the valley. [5]
- Allowing for the natural variation of the needle, it was absurdly wrong. [4]
- One of our most inveterate relic-hunters had his hammer with him, and tried to break a fragment off the upright Needle and could not do it; he tried the prostrate one and failed; he borrowed a heavy sledge hammer from a mason and tried again. [5]
- He did as men have always done, and probably always will do, to the end of time--held the needle still, and tried to thrust the thread through the eye, which is the opposite of a woman's way. [5]
- There was a marvellous arrangement in the walls with which Edith was never tired of playing, a circular plate covered with legends of every conceivable want, from a newspaper to a needle and thread and a Scotch whiskey highball. [9]
- There, on a low table, bent over his work, with a needle in his hand, sat Louis Trudel the tailor. [11]
- Her hands no longer plied the needle, and the pair would have smiled in pity on any one who should have complained of the intolerable heat of this scorching, parching forenoon. [10]
- If he had killed himself, the needle would probably have been found. [11]
- So incredibly short it was, and so incredibly stiff, that it reminded her of the needle points on the cylinder of an old-fashioned music-box; and she wondered, if it were properly inserted, what would be the resultant melody. [9]
- The needle was in his pocket-book--to kill me with some day perhaps. [11]
- Also the needle in her fingers might have been intended to sew up his shroud, so angry did it appear at the moment. [11]
- But, inexperienced as I was, I knew the kind better than he, and understood that it was easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle, than for John Paul to cross the thresholds of the great houses of London. [9]
- Drawing out of his pocket a small case, he took from it a needle and held it up. [11]
- She took up her sewing, but the needle paused in the stitch, and she found herself looking away across the lawn to the hills; she took up a book, but the words had no meaning, read and reread them as she would. [4]
- Nell, busily plying her needle, repaired the tattered window-hangings, drew together the rents that time had worn in the threadbare scraps of carpet, and made them whole and decent. [12]
- The change which had taken place in the vital currents of Maurice Kirkwood's system was as simple and solid a fact as the change in a magnetic needle when the boreal becomes the austral pole, and the austral the boreal. [6]
- Prince Hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the Conde coat of arms on the table. [2]
- But presently she got to her feet again, and, going to the door of the lodge, fastened the horseshoe above it with a great needle and a string of buckskin. [11]
- There was also"--her eyes almost closed, and the needle and thread she held lay still in her lap--"when two of your brothers were killed in the drive of the buffalo. [11]
- The cruelty was evident to him as she bit in two the thread for the waistcoat she was mending, and then plied her needle again. [11]
- Then again a door creaked on its hinges, and after that all was so still that she could have heard a needle drop on the floor; and this alarming silence continued till presently a deep, resonant man's voice was audible. [10]
- I had to do something with my hands; so I took up a needle off of the table and went to threading it. [5]
- When her trouble comes to her"--Charley's needle slipped and pierced his finger to the bone--"when her father goes, as he must, I fear, there will be no familiar face; she will hear no familiar voice. [11]
- So when Malachi come and saw the sheriff steppin' round in his paten' leathers, it give him the needle, and he got a bead on him--and away went Sheriff Fargo-- right away! [11]
- There was no coat hanging behind the door, no sabots for the fields or oilskins for the sands, no pipe laid upon a ledge, no fisherman's needle holding a calendar to the wall. [11]
- Would thread were bread, seeing one getteth a year's sufficiency for a farthing, and such a brave big needle without cost, for mere love. [5]
- His eyes drew away from the indistinct craft--first to the reefs, and then to that spot where the colossal needle stretched up under the water. [11]
- Much they marvailed at the playing of the Fly and Needle, which they could see so plainly, and yet not touch it, because of the glass that covered them. [4]
- Her mother sat at a sewing-machine intent upon some work, the needle eating up a spreading piece of cloth. [11]
- You didn't by any chance find the needle, I suppose? [11]
- He cannot learn anatomy by thrusting an exploring needle into the body. [3]
- His dress was amazingly neat, but showed constant brushing and signs of the friendly repairing needle. [11]
- They meet there always some of the ladies I have spoken of, whose unostentatious duty and pleasure it is to pass the evening with them, in reading or music or the use of the needle, and the exchange of the courtesies of life in conversation. [4]
- Time and time again the thread missed the mark, going sometimes on one side of the needle, sometimes on the other, sometimes doubling up against the shaft; but he was patient, having been through these experiences before, when he was soldiering. [5]
- I could thread a needle nearly as well as the player did whom you saw to-day. [5]
- It was such a needle as he had seen at Glencader in Mr. Mappin's hand. [11]
- You haven't got a needle and thread I suppose? [12]
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