Needle
Needle verb - To attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults.
Both words in one sentence
- In a story by John T Sladek, parodying the locked room genre, a writer describes (among others) a murder mystery plot in which the victim is surreptitiously stabbed with a long, very thin, needle.
Source: Time-Delayed Death - Luccio, commander of the Wardens, uses a needle-thin beam of fire like a laser cutter, showing both power and control.
Source: Projectile Spell -
Forgotten Realms spell chromatic blade creates a glowing in erratic colors, needle-thin line of Hard Light.
Source: Laser Blade
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