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n. (plural of compass needle English)
Usage examples of "compass needles".
Monitoring lobby traffic was the troublemaker's troublemaker, Pisshole Pat, the chain-smoking desk clerk with the crippled arm and the motor mouth, who, from the security of his bulletproof glass cage, enjoyed harassing peers and innocents alike, his bleached eyes a reproach to naive hipsters like Perry who cultivated his tolerance out of the same dark need pushing them out to the margins here, all the good little girls and boys, lives from the womb pointed like compass needles in this damned direction, the tug of The Life, you think you're on a visit when you've really found a home.
There were magnets in the radio speakers a smart person could use to make compass needles, the needles coming from manual carburetors, not those fancy injector things.
As our shadows fell on the water, the carp turned toward us like compass needles surging toward the north.
They carried no compasses since the radiations of the two suns constantly created magnetic storms that caused compass needles to swing as much as twenty degrees within an hour.
It was like his face was a magnet, and my eyes were compass needles being pulled toward it.
The men revolve, one step at a time, until compass needles point to 34, the number coding for Detroit.
There was a violent whirring sound somewhere within the damaged mechanism, The hands began to fluctuate like a pair of compass needles.