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• Chi stops, but her eyes continue to pierce right through me and into Karima.2022 June 16, Marc B. DeGeorge, A Call to the Sky, MuseMarc Studio LLC, →ISBN. From the entry tense
• The sound of a hard-working diesel engine pierces the damp Yorkshire air.2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Traction transition: HST to Azuma”, in Rail, page 32. From the entry louder
• Gently pierce each asterisk with a wooden skewer to make a hole.2016, Courtney Sanchez, “Retro Stove”, in DIY Box Creations: Fun and Creative Projects to Make out of Really Big Boxes!, Lake Forest…. From the entry asterisk
• “The only flower I like is a flower that can pierce an Englishman’s throat!”.2014 September 14, “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), via HBO. From the entry englishman
• This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.2010 January 8, Simon Jenkins, “The proliferation of nuclear panic is politics at its most ghoulish”, in The Guardian, §: “Comment &…. From the entry carapace
• While these mouthparts are not primarily designed to pierce skin some mallophagans do feed on blood.2005, M. J. Lehane, The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects, page 8. From the entry mallophagan
• Some of the fibres of this languette which pierce the subcutaneous layer system are demonstrated.1973, H. Graham Stack, The palmar fascia, page 51. From the entry languette
• Apply dope to any hole pierce by tester, using dope stick in end of tester.1967, Army Aviation Maintenance Engineering Manual Shop Practices, page 116. From the entry dope stick
• Pierce remembered Hilda's prophecy that her indigent husband would turn up, like a bad penny.1918, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 17, in The Winds of Chance. From the entry bad penny
• Fu-Manchu, to see the gleaming, chatoyant eyes, greenly terrible, as they sought to pierce the gloom.1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XXIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. From the entry chatoyant
• The jackhole had therefore to be abandoned, and no further attempts were made to pierce the strata.1913, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), The Mining Engineer, page 379. From the entry jackhole
• That doesn’t help them integrate effectively, to pierce what some call the bamboo ceiling in the corporate and political worlds.2012 November 1, Ethan Bronner, “Asian-Americans in the Argument”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Apr 2014. From the entry bamboo ceiling
• Before you start it's best to pierce the holes into the polystyrene block that will hold the cake pops.2011, Molly Bakes, Crazy for Cake Pops: 50 All-New Delicious and Adorable Creations, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry cake pop
• It gouged the iridium armor like a misthrust rapier which tears skin but does not pierce the skull.2009, David Drake, The Complete Hammer's Slammers. From the entry misthrust
• The hoo hoo's in the background pierce the air.2008, Jane Covernton, Cutlass Time, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry hoo hoo
• Outside, an exaltation of doves pierces the crystal sky.2002, Luisa Lang Owen, Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered, Texas A&M University Press, page 218. From the entry exaltation
• Each sinusy gasp of Enid’s seemed to pierce his ear the instant he was poised afresh to drop off.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry sinusy
• The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.1994, John Christopher, A Dusk of Demons. From the entry stridulation
• When he kept the smile in check for troubled-young-man roles on “Bonanza” or “Marcus Welby, M.D.,” his masterful sulk could pierce the small screen.2017 November 22, Amy Argetsinger, “David Cassidy was the biggest star in the world — for about two years”, in The Washington Post. From the entry lashy
• When the name of the guilty one was uttered the pearl was supposed to bound upwards and pierce the bottom of the vase.1920, L. Spence, Encyc. Occult. From the entry margaritomancy
• Occasionally, the sun pierces the clouds like a searchlight to illuminate a feature such as a farm, copse or stream, before being overwhelmed by an advancing shower.2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57. From the entry shower
• In Laxdaela saga one of the characters, twelve years old Hardbein Helgason, pierces with an atgeir a steel helmet on the head of his opponent (App. 19).2019, Daniel Jaquet, Matyas Miskolczi, Acta Periodica Duellatorum (vol. 7, issue 1), →ISBN, pages 36–37. From the entry atgeir
• Shankara prescribed meditative reflection, through which each individual could pierce the veil of maya and come to recognize the identity between his or her essence and the universal spirit.2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 58. From the entry maya
• A moment later the windowless chamber was illuminated by the entry of a heavenly creature emitting a radiance prone to pierce the heart of any youth exposed to it.2015, Hermann Kauders, Before The Cock Crows, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry sombre
• This hood is normally configured like a tiny one-ended tunnel, and the VCH pierces through the thin membrane of skin above your clitoris, not through the clitoris itself.2009, Elayne Angel, “Below the Belt: Female and Male Genital Piercings”, in The Piercing Bible: The Definitive Guide to Safe Body…. From the entry VCH
• I know were I to pierce that hide I would undelve intestine, bolus, bile, blood, paramecia — and yet the breathing animal body bears more, which now I crave.1986, Michael Mayo, Practising angels. From the entry undelve
• When an onion bolts and forms a flower stalk, the stem grows right up through the neck, forming a tough, fibrous tube that pierces the center of the bulb.1982, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Diane E. Bilderback, Garden Secrets: A Guide to Understanding how Your Garden Grows and how You Can Help it…. From the entry bolt
• For an instant he glanced along the polished shaft, drawing the bowstring far back, that the arrow might pierce through the heart for which it was aimed.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 191. From the entry bowstring
• With each sudden pierce of lightning, the girl imagined she was hanging from the eaves as some sightless, hearingless, throatless, stony gargoyle -- a lifeless condition that would offer safety.2010, Patricia East, Wherever Snow Falls, page 1. From the entry hearingless

Meaning of pierce

1. verb To puncture; to break through.
2. verb To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry.
3. verb To break or interrupt abruptly.

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Questions about pierce in a sentence

How do you use pierce in a sentence?

Pierce is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The diver pierced the surface of the water with scarcely a splash.”

What is a short sentence with pierce?

“to pierce a mystery”

What does pierce mean?

Pierce means to puncture; to break through.