The celery was missing and the truffles were mere pinpricks.

The irises of her eyes are huge, the pupils mere pinpricks; has she been taking laudanum again?

Suddenly the punctures in his stomach felt like mere pinpricks.

Yet nausea and bone-weariness were mere pinpricks compared to the emotional upheaval she was going through.

Emerging from the foliage, they stared at the aircraft, which was already a mere pinprick against the pale blue sky.

A mere pinprick, yet it was some kind of hope, although not a lot.

The blood sugar level checks were mere pinpricks, a nuisance, but again, routine.

It shrank to a mere pinprick, then vanished altogether.

The nearer ones glowed with their strange, alien light, while those farthest away were mere pinpricks, almost invisible to the eye.

The sun was a mere pinprick of light on the distant horizon, too cold and far away to do any good.