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• I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.From the entry pap
• However, our case showed mainly hypocellularity due to the nature of puncture tissue.2015 July 9, Zhengrong Wu et al., “Rapid recurrence and bilateral lungs, multiple bone metastasis of malignant solitary fibrous tumor of…. From the entry hypocellularity
• Using B-Ultrasound guidance, an 18-gauge puncture needle (Angiotech Company, Denmark) was advanced transhepatically into the gallbladder.2015 July 9, Yi-Ren Hu et al., “Efficacy and safety of B-mode ultrasound-guided percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage combined…. From the entry transhepatically
• An arrow had speared his leg, puncturing the platemail near his knee.2014, Tim Hall, Shadow of the Wolf, Oxford, Oxon: David Fickling Books, →ISBN, page 382. From the entry platemail
• She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry breath
• The 21st-century equivalent of the Berlin wall is a cyberbarrier, and we can help puncture it.2009 June 18, Nicholas D. Kristof, “Tear Down This Cyberwall!”, in New York Times. From the entry cyberbarrier
• On vacation, I'm a worrywart for fretting about third-degree burns and puncture wounds.2008 August 17, Nicole L.V. Mullis, “Vacation renders kids, adult males impervious to danger”, in Battle Creek Enquirer. From the entry worrywart
• Uneven plains that are interspersed with pebbles and rocks are likely to cause punctures in the zorbs.2006 March 25, Susmita Saha, quoting Anurag Mehra, “A different ballgame”, in Calcutta Telegraph. From the entry zorb
• Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTHC or PTC) is radiography of bile ducts via needle puncture.2005, Judi Lindsley Nath, Using Medical Terminology: A Practical Approach, Wolters Kluwer Health, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry PTHC
• So many dead Dragons, routed Pretenders, punctured Princesses and newfounded Cities — who needed yet another?2005, John Barth, Where Three Roads Meet, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry newfounded
• Caltrops, tetrahedrons, and similar devices are designed to puncture vehicle tires or limit foot traffic.2000, Alan Vick, Aerospace operations in urban environments: exploring new concepts. From the entry caltrop
• She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, page 268. From the entry lymph
• The hollow, transparent tooth of a cone snail can remain lodged in the puncture wound.1997, Craig Thomas, Susan Scott, All Stings Considered: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Hawaii's Marine Injuries, passage 25. From the entry textile cone
• A tetanus injection was the usual thing for a cut or puncture wound on a horse.1971, Adelaide Leitch, The Blue Roan, New York, NY: Henry Z. Walck, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry tet
• Mesosternum tumid with wide, punctured, longitudinal furrow between halves, xyphus quadrangular also punctured, its apex truncate.1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of…. From the entry xyphus
• Sharp or irregular shaped parts should be underwrapped with a grade A material to cushion against puncture.1945, William C Farmer, Ordnance Field Guide: Restricted - Volume 3, page 508. From the entry underwrap
• He tapped the upper sac by simple puncture, without making an incision through the parietes.1908, British Medical Journal. From the entry hydramnion
• Feilding became obsessed with trepanning, believing that puncturing the skull relieved pressure and increased blood flow, perhaps creating a permanent high.2025 June 12, Michael S. Rosenwald, “Amanda Feilding, Eccentric Countess Who Backed Psychedelic Meds, Dies at 82”, in The New York Times…. From the entry trepanning
• Grace's artistic dreams (of animation, of course) are punctured by her isolated existence; Gilbert's pyrophilia is smothered by religious extremism.2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay Weepy Memoir Of A Snail Crawls through a Gauntlet of Misery”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry woebegone
• In this moment of constant campaigning and tribal partisanship, even the courts have had difficulty puncturing the ideological bubbles that Mr.2023 April 1, Jonathan Weisman, “Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry partisanship
• Indeterminacy of texts and interpretation, that is, puncturing any tendency to lock texts and their interpretation into exactitude.2016, Oral A. W. Thomas, Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics Within a Caribbean Context. From the entry unend
• The canvas was punctured by the little balls, but held.2015, Karl W Heffelfinger, Headlong Into Hell. From the entry hold
• The bus tire puncture right before my stop.2015 June 24, @BurgerBing, Twitter. From the entry heng
• Addling has come to mean destroying eggs by any physical or chemical means – puncturing, freezing, or coating with vegetable oil.2013, Russell F. Reidinger with James E. Miller, Wildlife Damage Management: Prevention, Problem Solving & Conflict Resolution, Baltimore…. From the entry addling
• Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes.2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry jaundiced
• Parapsis shiny, with close micropunctures and sparse coarse punctures; mesoscutal disc shiny, with sparse micropunctures, nearly impunctate in middle.1982, Bulletin, volumes 81-82, page 81. From the entry micropuncture
• The tyres of motor omnibuses, it was said, were punctured.1955 May 9, The Times, page 9. From the entry motor omnibus
• A lumbar puncture was done and the three tubes contained nonclotting blood and the supernatant fluid was xanchromatic.1937, New York State Journal of Medicine. From the entry xanchromatic
• I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day.2024 November 16, Naomi Beinart, “I’m 16. On Nov. 6 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.”, in The New York Times, archived from…. From the entry indifference
• The polyhedron P∪D is a special spine of the twice punctured M, that is, of M with two balls B₁, B₂ cut out of it.2007, Sergei Matveev, “2 Complexity Theory of 3-Manifolds”, in Algorithmic Topology and Classification of 3-Manifolds, 2nd edition…. From the entry spine
• Saxophonist Pete Wareham, his friend and collaborator in Polar Bear and the critically feted groups Acoustic Ladyland and Fulborn Teversham, soon punctures that idea.2007 April 6, Mike Barnes, “Is this the hardest-working man in music?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023. From the entry fete
• When she pulled her boots back out again she tinged her own footholes with red-brown mud, like the edging of blood around a punctured bandage.2007, Owen Sheers, Resistance, page 119. From the entry foothole
• "She's wallowing in the sloughed excrudescence of my earthly self; she's gumming the punctured and bruised dermis of the hand that feeds."2006, Nancy K. Stade, 'The Desert Crop, page 354. From the entry excrudescence
• The punctured giant lacewing, Polystoechotes punctatus (Fabricius), the largest lacewing (greater than 35 mm) to inhabit the Great Lakes region, is quite rare.1996, Gary A. Dunn, Insects of the Great Lakes Region, page 154. From the entry giant lacewing
• Dalton, you may add nine staples to your dossier of thirty‐one broken bones, two bullet wounds, nine puncture wounds and four steel screws.1989, Road House, page 39. From the entry local

Meaning of puncture

1. noun The act or an instance of puncturing.
2. noun A hole, cut, or tear created by a sharp object.
3. noun A hole in a vehicle's tyre, causing the tyre to deflate.

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How do you use puncture in a sentence?

Puncture is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There were two small punctures in his arm where the snake's fangs had pierced the skin.”

What is a short sentence with puncture?

“The needle punctured the balloon instantly.”

What does puncture mean?

Puncture means the act or an instance of puncturing.