needled

• “THE silent black disk that makes noises when needled is chiefly shellac, lampblack and limestone.”

  2006 October

• “FLATOW: And is there one tree that loses needles, you know, that is a better kind of needled tree to have so it doesn't, you know, lose needles so quickly?”

  NPR Topics: News

• “A few years back, when Henry Paulson was still U.S. Treasury secretary, Wang Qishan, China's vice premier, needled him.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Emerging Questions on Growth Path

• “This one!" says the oldest, pointing to something rather sparsely needled, about twice my height.”

  The Guardian: Diary of a separation

• “Hedo Turkoglu needled Lewis throughout the game, at one point, ignoring a referee during a break in action in the fourth quarter to throw a pass to a seated Lewis instead.”

  The Washington Post: Short-handed Wizards go into all-star break with a whimper

• “The unaccountable failure needled O as he landed in Chicago and noticed again he had not been able to give comfort and encouragement, as he had planned to, to a friend from his past for whom he still felt affection.”

  Simon & Schuster: O: A Presidential Novel

• “Light needled into them and he snapped them shut again.”

  Simon & Schuster: Etched in Bone

• “A needle must feel deeply needled, ill - suited to its skin, to leave its arrow - straight ways, to stray into a haystack, to mean to lose or find itself in that soft tangle, to fill its one good eye with the gold filament of pasture, to imagine itself pillow to the weary, supper to bell - necklaced goats.”

  In a Haystack

• “He needled the GOP by mocking the Grover Norquist blood oath against raising taxes and assertively articulated the role of government.”

  The Guardian: President Obama's jobs speech: the verdict | The panel

• “Though doubt needled her -- for Ereshkigal was as shrewd as any Kushite assassin -- it had been an eternity since she had been flattered.”

  Archive 2009-12-01

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