Its needle-like bullets were not intended to kill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Planet Strappers] Reference

The phyllodes range from short and needle-like to long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 50] Reference

The cat is grinning hideously, needle-like teeth bared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

If it is a pickerel, look out for his needle-like teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference

Tiny little needle-like crystals blown by a bitter wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money, Money, Money]

Five hundred yards ahead a needle-like rock soared up high.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghosts of Gol]

Anglo-Saxon "Needl," with reference to the needle-like stings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

I feel a needle-like heat spread over my face and under my arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snake Dreams] Reference

Complains constantly of numbness and needle-like pains in vertex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

In the months of April and May, the younger needle-like leaves of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference

Mercury chloride: melts, evaporates and condenses in a needle-like form.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.1 Blow pipe assaying] Reference

The tran arrowhead design had been slimmed down to needle-like proportions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Icerigger]

As the ocean water begins to freeze, small needle-like ice crystals called frazil form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea ice] Reference

Draw out the glass so that the gas will burn in a fine needle-like flame about 1 in. long.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference

There is one kind that has narrow or needle-like leaves which they keep through the winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

Corcovada, a needle-like peak, some 2000 feet high, overlooking the bay, should not be missed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

The raw taro root a corm actually contains needle-like structures that cause severe stomach pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spot-On: Creation] Reference

Each mountain top and side was studded with enormous needle-like pinnacles and rough warty masses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference

You would expect him to land on a lily-pad any moment and smooth his wings with his needle-like legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

They were fastened together by means of small, needle-like fish-bones Robinson had found on the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Robinson Crusoe for American Boys and Girls] Reference

Mechanically she put up her hand and discovered a needle-like splinter of glass sticking into her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

It has a slender beak with needle-like mouth parts which are stuck into the plant for extracting the sap.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference

The nest is formed of pine twigs, lined with feathers, soft grass, and the needle-like leaves of the fir tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference

Examining the residue with a microscope it was found to consist of innumerable raphides or needle-like crystals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

The tiny needle-like cylinders have strong electrical properties and they are often used in transistors or copper wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese Professor Warns of Cancerous Material] Reference

There was a small pool at the end of the river, dammed back by sand and full of white water-lilies and needle-like reeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Flies]

The piercing proboscis consists of three long needle-like organs, the epipharynx and mandibles, and a lower lip or labium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

Sharp and needle-like it sprang from its cloud-hidden base, and scarcely a flake of snow clung to its terrible precipices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference

Around the needle-like point of the syringe, less than a quarter of an inch from its end, was a tiny, annular bit of metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

Instead, in first recitation, where she sat behind Nancy, she poked her in the back with a needle-like forefinger and hissed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

All the cacti are leafless and abundantly supplied with sharp, needle-like spines which protect them from herbivorous animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

The sealing gum in the Archer's skin worked effectively on the needle-like punctures, but the knockout drug had been delivered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Planet Strappers] Reference

It was long -- six feet or more, with a slender, reed shaft and a needle-like point of tough palmwood fitted and glued into the stem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Phantom] Reference

Carbon nanotubes CNTs, with their needle-like geometry, high elasticity and strength, have recently shown that they`re up to the task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speedlinking 6/20/07] Reference