How to Use pinhead in a Sentence

pinhead

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  • The insect is the size of a pinhead.
  • Her boss is a real pinhead.
  • If the Sun's the size of a soccer ball, then the Earth is a tiny pinhead.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2016
  • Nits are the size of a pinhead, and appear whitish or yellow.
    — Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Nits are the size of a pinhead, and appear whitish or yellow.
    — Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The predators, each no bigger than a pinhead, come to their senses and zigzag out of the vial.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Aphids — which are about the size of a pinhead — invaded pecan trees.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The biggest scourge to bees is tiny—a mite the size of a pinhead that feeds on them and spreads deadly viruses.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 June 2021
  • These small cherry-red bumps can range from the size of a pinhead to a pencil eraser.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The company built a robot that fires a laser to open a hole in the shell much smaller than a pinhead.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Indigo and onion progeny are tiny, about the size of a pinhead.
    — Latria Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The growths are one to five millimeters, or about the size of a pinhead to less than one-fourth of an inch.2 Shape: Cherry angiomas are usually dome-shaped.
    — Sarah Fielding, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Among their squashes: Grumpkin, who looks grumpy, and Drunkin, whose long pinhead looks tipsy.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022
  • That’s not to say the drug is completely useless in the fight against citrus greening, which is spread by a pinhead-sized insect called the Asian citrus psyllid.
    — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Aphids, which are about the size of a pinhead, are invading trees, mostly pecan, but also oaks, crepe myrtles and others, Sperry said.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The plant has small, hollow structures (the bladders) – no bigger than a pinhead – that live under water and have a flexible valve.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
  • In the aftermath of oil spills, several features make kelp and kelp spores the size of a pinhead perfect for scientific study.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Taft calls Teddy a dictator; Teddy calls Taft a pinhead.
    — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2016
  • Detecting larva and nymphs that can be as small as a pinhead further compounds the difficulties of the prevention and care of tick bites and TBDs.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2011
  • The tissue, about the size of a pinhead, had been preserved, stained with heavy metals, cut into 5,000 slices and imaged under an electron microscope.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Fleas, the pinhead sized bane of pets and pet owners alike, begin spreading into households across Indiana from mid to late summer.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2022
  • The only blood that is on an article of clothing … was a 1/16 inch-size pinhead spot of blood on an underdress underneath an outer dress.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 31 July 2021
  • Alumni protest that pinhead reporters don’t know the whole story, that these coaches and presidents and chancellors are princely men.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 26 May 2016
  • Heming confirmed the person to be the suspect’s brother. Ricin, found naturally in castor beans, can cause death within 36 to 72 hours from exposure to an amount as small as a pinhead.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The organoids grew into balls about the size of a pinhead, each containing hundreds of thousands of cells in a variety of types, each type producing the same chemicals and electrical signals as those cells do in our own brains.
    — New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Perfect punctuality is a pinhead, a notional point on the continuum, kind of a Zeno’s paradox.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2022
  • This isn't like the monologues Kimmel delivered during the health care repeal efforts, with explanatory skits and threats to pound hypocritical Fox News pinheads.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 4 Oct. 2017
  • That random handful might hold microscopic fungi, decomposing plant matter, a whisker-size nematode munching on the fungi, and a predatory, pinhead-size mite about to pounce on the nematode.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 4 Dec. 2020

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