“I accidentally pricked my finger with a pin, leaving a tiny pinprick on my skin.”

“He had been setting up his gun on the terrace and was about to chamber the bullets when he felt a slight pin-prick on his shoulder.”

“Because of the Flying Fortress's altitude it was no more than a pin-prick of light.”

“This recurs in the bunch of bananas covered with pinpricks that, oxidised on contact with the air, form the black outline of a face.”

“A rash which starts off as tiny red or purple pinpricks and may develop into bruises which do not fade when pressed with a glass.”

“The stimuli included mechanical pinpricks, electrical stimuli, contact heat, and injection of a low-pH solution.”