How to Use hypodermic needle in a Sentence

hypodermic needle

noun
  • One nurse would peel back the waistband of my pants and stick a hypodermic needle into my left hip.
    — Jaime Lowe, Esquire, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Police found a hypodermic needle in his pocket, and a small amount of blood was on his hands.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 3 July 2020
  • In a lunchbox on the kitchen stove, police found a spoon and hypodermic needle plunger.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Police later found a hypodermic needle in a trash can and a glass pipe inside the man's coat.
    — Brian Lisik/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • His bare legs and arms are covered in open sores, and a hypodermic needle dangles from one of his biceps.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Police found hypodermic needles in his pants pocket and book bag.
    — cleveland, 28 Sep. 2019
  • There are even hypodermic needles being tossed in the pits along with human waste and other garbage.
    — latimes.com, 3 June 2019
  • Police found a hypodermic needle in the man’s sock during the arrest, but no drugs were found.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Then police noticed the man had been holding a hypodermic needle in his hand.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The most intense day of filming for me was the scene with Maika and the hypodermic needle.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Police searched the man and found three hypodermic needles in his underwear.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 19 July 2019
  • In the woman’s purse, police found two glass vials with residue, a glass container and a hypodermic needle cap.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Agents found bags of hypodermic needles, latex gloves and Naloxone.
    — Tim Darnell, ajc, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The hypodermic needle was recovered and disposed of at the fire station.
    — cleveland, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Also found in the house were several hypodermic needles and a pile of a white powdery substance on the living room floor.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The moment the fangs touch the glove, the venom glands plunge like hypodermic needles, shooting poison into saline.
    — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • Throughout the event, the suspect brandished a hypodermic needle, filled with an unknown substance, as a weapon.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Now, Democrats want to bring out the hypodermic needle for the 2020 elections.
    — Marc A. Thiessen, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
  • So, a technician uses a hypodermic needle to inject a few small microchips into your body.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 11 June 2021
  • The naloxone reservoir can be refilled via a hypodermic needle inserted through the skin into a port on top of the implant.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The woman was found with a hypodermic needle and admitted to having done heroin earlier in the day.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 13 July 2020
  • Researchers push a hypodermic needle through the bottle's cork and extract about a milliliter of liquid.
    — David Williams, CNN, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Investigators found hypodermic needles and drug paraphernalia in the same room where most of the dogs were found.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 27 Nov. 2024
  • In fact, the mosquito proboscis has even been put to use before, as the inspiration for pain-free hypodermic needles.
    — New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The guy who sells hypodermic needles near the Somerset El station?
    — Aubrey Whelan, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
  • The computer selected one hand at random, and then a hypodermic needle entered the picture and stabbed into the flesh of that hand.
    — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The frantic trendiness of the first half hour works as a hypodermic needle of off-the-chain 2002 nostalgia.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The barbed quills also slide in with less force than a hypodermic needle of the same width, or than the quill of an African porcupine, which doesn’t have any barbs (see end of post).
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2012
  • Officers observed a plastic bindle in the center console area with a hypodermic needle lying beside it.
    — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The city also has doubled the size of a cleanup crew dedicated to disposing of hypodermic needles discarded on the streets.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 6 May 2018

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