The tip of the needle should not be made too sharp to prevent breakage, although blunt needles cause more pain.

It rested quietly, suspended in its mesh frame, like a blunt needle.

Arthritis jabbed blunt darning needles into the joints of her hips and knees.

Why hadn't they used the painless mists instead of the huge blunt needles?

As his head rose into the golden shimmering, he had a moment's sensation of being jabbed with thousands of tiny blunt needles.

Nigel had been offered wool and large blunt needles by an elderly nurse.

She felt very ill and her hand hurt where a blunt needle had been jabbed deep into the muscles.

I felt a stab of pain, like a blunt needle piercing my flesh.

But she prepared and injected the shot without saying anything, using a blunt needle and quite unnecessary force to jab it home.