What is "pinpricks"

Usage examples of "pinpricks".

Quite gently, he closed the small, telltale pinpricks and eased the man to the ground.

He swept his tongue over the pinpricks, caught her chin, and welded their mouths together.

I began to feel thousands of tiny pinpricks all over my body, but they hardly hurt.

I felt pinpricks all over my body, and I was sure the others felt it, too.

I could almost feel the pinpricks on my skin, and taste the dry ashen taste in my mouth.

My toes curled down into claws, and my spine arched back as millions of pinpricks raced up my body.