pinprick

The gap between rhetoric and action was on vivid display this weekend with pinprick U.S. strikes in northern Iraq.

Besides, to shoot a mere amateur in Chouannerie would be as absurd as to fire on a balloon when a pinprick would disinflate it.

Suddenly the darkness was pierced by a faint ray of light emanating from a mere pinprick of luminosity.

Used as he had become, the past two years, to pinpricks of this sort, his colour betrayed how much the present pinprick hurt him.

The offence itself seemed a pinprick beside the rankle of the wound to her pride.

The cavalry horses and transport animals suffered from bursati, and even a pinprick expanded into a large open sore.