Translation for "pin-prick" to spanish
Pin-prick
noun
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Translation examples
These were but pin-pricks.
Todo aquello eran sólo alfilerazos.
These missiles were mere pin pricks to so vast a creature, but they stuck in its hide and roused it to fury.
Los proyectiles no eran sino alfilerazos para tan enorme bestia, pero se le clavaban en el pellejo y despertaban su furia.
through God’s help and your own actions you may be able to reduce a sword-thrust to a pin-prick.
con la ayuda de Dios y sus propias acciones usted puede ser capaz de reducir una estocada a un alfilerazo.
Irie gritted her teeth as the torture of a thousand pin-pricks faded to five hundred, then twenty-five, until finally it was just a warm flush of the kind delivered by a slap.
Irie hacía rechinar los dientes, mientras la tortura de mil alfilerazos se reducía a la de quinientos, luego a la de veinticinco y finalmente a un cálido hormigueo como el que produce una bofetada.
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