His needling had been more of a test than curiosity.

He recognized that the point of her needling was to get him to lose control.

In this sense, it began as a relatively gentle needling.

She slapped at his upper arm in response to the needling.

President Clinton rises to a needling and is prepared to needle back.

Once his needling would have bothered me, but now I took it in stride.

And again the admiral led her charge with verbal needling.

On the surface it might have been friendly needling, native to tourist.

I turned the other cheek for a few weeks, but Greg's needling made the games increasingly stressful.

It was his needling that had caused the friction in the first place, so to have him keep quiet suited me fine.

Usually Tony's the one who does the needling.

They could have cleared them away before we arrived, she thought; perhaps it's part of the needling, making us run the press gauntlet.

Petya was oblivious to any needling, however, and merely shook his dark head.

The starkness of his opinions also invites some understandable needling.

Twice your needling and public humiliation have driven him into a state of near-apoplexy.

"And we're not prepared to put up with any needling or any spite.

Pappas, the Harding coach, has also heard the needling.

Nugoya had a killer ego, and could only take a little needling before he jumped.

Even the ambassador joins in on the needling.

Some members of Congress returned the needling.

Frank winked at his brother to stop his needling.

Retch was too excited by his new purchase to pay much attention to Finley's needling.

He would be treated to special attention: double coverage, verbal needling, frequently some less than legal intimidation.

Jerome chuckled, warmed by the memory of the girl's good-natured needling.

Despite the needling, he insists he is not a bleeding-heart liberal.

What in the world did you put all those needles on me for?

At the same time, the needle went off the high end.

So down goes her head, hands working the needle again.

The needle had come to the end of the record.

Between them these programs have given out more than 5.4 million needles since they began in 1988.

You just had to take a needle in your hand and go to work.

She was up to two or three needles a week, and had gone without for maybe 48 hours.

If you back into one, the needles may take a month to work their way out.

I can tell from his eyes he has never seen so much in one needle before.

I could feel myself move the needle back to the beginning of the cut.

Not 10 minutes later, the needle began its march east.

The needle was way to the right, but it never moved.

They must turn in used needles to get new ones.

The needle will move up and down because of these forces.

"Why its needle points to the south and not to the north."

There's a good man with a needle if I ever saw one.

And I was right on top of that needle, looking down.

It only took her a second or two to find a needle.

Blood took out the needles before he gave it back to me.

Then there was a bed of needles under his feet.

Only a few small needle programs are being tried in this country.

It was just the man's nature to needle an old friend.

So that really became an important thing, to have a needle.

There was no need to change a needle after every record side.

This is not the case when using the more common needles.

I thought he was needling me about what time I'd come in.

But I think it came down to us having a good time needling each other.

Johnny, are you doing us any good by needling her so?

But here, in the dark of the night, an accusing voice needled me.

My plan was to start by needling him into a frown.

His sister needled him all evening for getting in trouble at school.

They are also putting up with a fair amount of needling from friends, he said.

She'd started out needling me, but now seemed genuinely interested.

Gold asked, perhaps enjoying needling his security chief just a little too much.

But not enough to stop needling his son on stage before all the television cameras.

Afterward, Scott said, his players were needling him about the play.

He is not very good in his studies nor pilot training and sometimes get needled because of it.

They needled him about the lack of an interception all season.

The light of the lobby hit his eyes sharply, needling them.

He could not resist needling the liaison just a little.

I was just needling him, but he didn't seem to notice.

"You said the stuff was needled, so I took your word for it.

When teammates needled Clemens today, there was not much he could say.

He came in talking, needling everyone, like he always did.

And a lot of these individuals likely got needled to treat their arthritis.

He looked needled by the sly amusement in her voice.

The older man knew he was repeating himself, but this fellow needled him.

Lauren then asked the question that had been needling Robin and her for days.

Here we were, depending on this little jerk to help us, and I was needling him.

She wouldn't be able to resist needling at me about it.