pinhead
Example Sentences
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With a brain the size of a pinhead, insects perform fantastic navigational feats.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2024
I’m a mere critic, not a network pinhead, as David Letterman referred to executives who made these kinds of decisions, but that doesn’t mean I can’t dream up cockamamie ideas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
To investigate, researchers coated 14 species of coral—10 in the lab and four in the wild—with tiny fluorescent beads, which are each smaller than a pinhead and glow under light-emitting diode light.
From Science Magazine ● May 12, 2022
During the tours, experts try to count pinhead cherries in the branches to come up with more detailed projections.
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2021
Every single day he looked like he had just walked out of Sunday school: Every thin yellow hair on his pinhead was perfectly cut and licked to a gloss.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
