THE silent black disk that makes noises when needled is chiefly shellac, lampblack and limestone.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 October] Reference

A long-needled pine gone from a family's front yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2007] Reference

But he needled the journalists again, calling on Peter.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

'I thought you knew all the brass,' Roskill needled him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alamut Ambush]

He reached automatically for the glass of ether-needled beer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police Your Planet] Reference

Wax paper is intricately needled into a lace nightie and thong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art: Culture and Celebrity] Reference

Sort o 'needled her somehow, I fancy; but, bless yer, I soon put.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892] Reference

Mushrooms dotted the pine-needled path between the thin gray pines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Tonight, however, the familiar warm imaginings were needled with anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mind to Murder]

He grinned at himself, then something needled at his mind, until he swung back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police Your Planet] Reference

Most of the trees were needled evergreens, and ferns were thick in the mossy shade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Quite a coincidence, Anna needled, to see what kind of response she could scare up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Lure]

This is a long-needled pine, common throughout parts of central and northern Florida.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2007] Reference

When night fell, she dug a place out of the needled ground and curled up in it again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clan of the Cave Bear]

They camped the first night in a small clearing on a knoll surrounded by needled spires.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Mr. Manning needled Mark Sanchez, the new rookie Jets quarterback, for a large donation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charities Rethink Glitz Quotient for Their Galas] Reference

Slowly it became obvious to me that when Trist needled Gord, Spink was the actual target.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

I crept, wet as I was, into her pine-needled hollow, and started to ask if she were afraid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

He'd been probed and needled and tested plenty in the last couple of days, but he didn't mind it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cum Grano Salis] Reference

She bounded off along the slippery pine-needled path and disappeared behind a curtain of foliage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polly and the Princess] Reference

She only needled Barack Obama once, gently, in the process of thanking her New Hampshire campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary, Triumphant, Finds Her Voice] Reference

Her tinny voice squirmed and needled through his head and he tried to busy himself with his budget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven Weber: For My Father 10/3/25 - 3/6/87] Reference

One by one, they ridiculed Forbes's "pure flat tax" proposal and needled him for his inherited wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sum Of Dole's Fears] Reference

Being needled by nonscientific newspaper reports, by blogs, and by right-wing politicians and think tanks?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet Ritz: Investment Fund Chairman on Climate Change: Grantham Says Buy It] Reference

Gleaming spheres caught the light from the stair window in brilliant contrast with the dark, needled depths.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

Roger and Astro continually needled each other with insults, and Tom gradually slipped into the role of arbiter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand by for Mars!] Reference

HARRIS: Meantime, a new issue has needled its way onto the campaign trail -- the lack of flu vaccine in the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2004] Reference

Violet now in the gloaming it melted into the lilac shadows at the base of the range that needled the sunset sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

M. O'BRIEN: He said you know I don't mind being needled, but maybe the needle should be a different needle next time.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2006] Reference

The bartender had a consolation boilermaker waiting; he gulped half of it before he realized it had been needled with ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police Your Planet] Reference

Straight dark boles supported a low canopy of spreading long-needled boughs that blocked sunlight and inhibited undergrowth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

He saw distinct blades of green grass mingling with gray pebbles and spike-tipped pinecones poking out of green-needled trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slipknot to Suicide] Reference

I remembered the way the fence had needled Beck about his wife leaving him — and how Beck had just stood there and taken it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leave a Message for Willie]

Wexford walked away, very delicately and softly for such a big man, his feet scarcely causing a crackle on the needled forest floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guilty Thing Surprised]

Senator John McCain and many TV pundits were among those who have needled Senator Boxer over the exchange with Brigadier General Walsh.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's In A Title, Ma'am?] Reference