pinholes

He explained the difficulties of the airship builder, the expense and tendency to "pinholes" of gold-beaters 'skin, the curious fact that chemists had so far failed to discover a gasproof varnish.

Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

My eyes opened and I could feel my pupils constrict to pinholes.

The Hound Thomas Shaggy 2011

It even has a couple tiny pinholes where those sweet pointy nipples had been.

Breasts and Pickups Nathaniel Tower 2012

Experts say pinholes can develop in fuel-rod casings, allowing small amounts of radiation to be released, although it wasn't known if that was the cause of the problem at the Tsuruga plant.

Japanese Plant Starts Installation of Filters Mitsuru Obe 2011

Joe Fig miniaturizes artist's studios into hyper-realistic models, Japanese artist Tabaimo's animated video installation "danDAN" imagines a cross-section of a housing complex, and Gregory Euclides creates small landscapes, some viewed via pinholes.

Don't Miss: Dec. 24-30 2011

The aliens, mostly MR-2s, who land here are small in stature, have green-yellowish eyes, two pinholes for a nose, and a very small mouth.

365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

As soon as you close the nozzle, the hose will leak through any pinholes or around the faucet as pressure builds inside.

Robert L. Cavnar: BP Well Test Continues - Data Sparse, but ONE Bit of Good News 2010

I was vaguely aware of the flesh turning dark purple, and blood oozing out of the thousands of pinholes, but the pain and nausea were what commanded my attention.

In the Forest of the Snake People (Part 1) Jason Radak 2010

Her ears, eyebrows, and lips have the telltale pinholes of piercings, and a black barbed-wire tattoo encircles her neck.

Boot Camp Todd Strasser 2010

If the gods were smiling on the weather and the telescope and the film, and you weren't even the least bit distracted after staring at these pinholes of light for months on end, you might notice that one of those objects has moved ever so slightly between the two photos.

Michael Byers's “Percival's Planet,” reviewed by Ron Charles 2010