PIERCING in a Sentence
Learn PIERCING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
168 example sentences for PIERCING, such as:
1. A piercing scream split the air.
2. They pierced through the thick forest.
3. He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.
4. She looked at me with piercing blue eyes.
5. He pierced the rubber ball with a needle.
2. They pierced through the thick forest.
3. He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.
4. She looked at me with piercing blue eyes.
5. He pierced the rubber ball with a needle.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PIERCING
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piercing
a. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
a. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
Classic Sentence: (150 in 11 pages)
1 He opened it; but as a rush of cold and piercing air penetrated the room abruptly, he closed it again immediately.
2 The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day of Judgment.
3 His glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing.
4 The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart.
5 The spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped with a certain piercing melancholy.
6 There was a piercing whistling going on in his ears.
7 This was accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
8 A few stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
9 The queen uttered a piercing cry at finding herself surprised--for in her trouble she did not at first recognize the young woman who had been given to her by Laporte.
10 His head, with piercing eyes, a straight nose, a chin cut like that of Brutus, had altogether an indefinable character of grandeur and grace.
11 "Show him in," said Milady, in a quick tone, but so piercing that d'Artagnan heard her in the antechamber.
12 The cardinal fixed his piercing eyes on this courageous speaker.
13 At the moment he went out a piercing glance darted through the opening of the nearly closed door, and she perceived Felton, who drew quickly to one side to prevent being seen by her.
14 Then she arose of herself, and cast around her one of those piercing looks which seemed to dart from an eye of flame.
15 "And now, Miss," he fixed her with a piercing glance, "I don't want to hear about you going home, either."
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 A piercing scream split the air.
2 There was mockery now in those piercing blue eyes.
3 She looked at me with piercing blue eyes.
4 He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.
5 Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her entrance the fiery mosaic I had been piercing together, and scattering too some heavy unwelcome thoughts that were beginning to throng on my solitude.
6 Although the extremes of body modification have been made more popular in our culture, it has been done for hundreds of years, and ear piercing is one of its oldest kinds.
7 He pierced the rubber ball with a needle.
8 The nurse pierced the skin of the boy with a lancet.
9 They pierced through the thick forest.
10 He pierced another hole in his belt with his knife.
11 One bullet pierced the left side of his chest.
12 Yet that brief derisive stare pierced her to her soul.
13 It grasps its victim in its forelegs and pierce it with its rostrum.
14 A word is no arrow, but it can pierce the heart.
15 The worker tried to pierce a hole in a piece of leather.