pinprick

Invisible ink, pinpricks and indentations on letters were all used to convey details of troop movements, bombing raids and ship-building.

When she awoke one morning covered in what looked like red pinpricks, her husband took her to the hospital.

In a variety of ways, despite the pinpricks, Kennedy played for the long term .

At night it is an expanse of darkness with only a few pinpricks of light.

In 2008, astronomers published the first direct images of exoplanets: tiny pinpricks of light close to a nearby star.

White pinpricks of cloud cast ebony shadows on the Rub' al Khali, or Empty Quarter, near the border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Most researchers think of them as microscopic pinpricks , the remnants of stars that have collapsed under their own weight.

That is why today, as in the 1950s, Israel responds to pinpricks with punitive raids, each of which had the potential to flare into war.

A device that uses teardrops to measure the amount of sugar in a person's blood could soon allow diabetics to forgo painful daily pinpricks.

Two tiny pinpricks are found on her arm.

They are not afraid to use violence against Gulliver, though their arrows are little more than pinpricks .

In the Copernican model, the stars appear as pinpricks to observers on Earth.

Now he became aware of an entirely new sensation: pinpricks? No, because they were soft and without pain.