How To Use Piercing In A Sentence

I had one forged from a white metal, capable of piercing almost any armour worn by man.
Every few minutes a piercing ringing sound could be heard when the inspector examined each alarm.
One had long, dirty blonde hair with piercing blue eyes, and the other had long, golden yellow hair with soft blue green eyes.
Loach's social-realist drama, written by his longtime collaborator Paul Laverty, is a distinctive, piercingly serious vision.
He had a swashbuckling posture; but such was his powerful physique and piercing look, it seemed natural rather than boastful or proud. Seminary Boy

She handles everything from piercing to pianissimo with ease and has just enough edge in her voice for this kind of Verdi role. Burn, Baby, Burn
Like a US flag flying in front of a structure, like tatooes and piercings, the cornrows hairdo is a clue warning the disfavored to stay away. You Are Nothing Without Your Robot. Nothing. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
We huddled closely around its glowing embers as they struggled to keep at bay the piercing chill of the Andean night.
Bronwyn stuck two fingers in her mouth and whistled, a high, piercing sound.
The next thing I knew stentorian voices were to be heard outside, accompanied by high-powered torch beams piercing the shrubbery.
He looked just like the pictures: the long-ish hair, piercing eyes, and the downturned mouth.
He does some other weird stuff then like knock people over using chi, and pull a railway locomotive along by cables attached to huge piercings right through his biceps, insane but not as miraculous as the electrical stuff.
But she saw nothing wrong with indulging a few kisses with the hottie with the most piercing blue peepers she has had the privilege of seeing.
She kept her accessories to a minimum, save for a belly-button piercing and a light pink tote which she kept next to her sun lounger.
The massive ship's boilers were easily recognised, piercing the gloom like giant globes.
It's like a workshop in Hades - you feel the heat from barrels set over open fires in the floor and hear the piercing din of hammers on steel as hoops are pounded onto staves.
Aaron!" called Lottie's voice, harsh and piercing in the hard cold of the night. Ishmael
After midnight, outspanning in a piercing wind, we formed square; main guard was posted over the General's car, and those lucky enough to escape turn of duty huddled together under cloaks and dozed fitfully until two-thirty. With Botha in the Field
Suddenly, the temperature made a drop from warm to freezing, as the plants around her froze and the gust of wind became a piercing gale.
Of course, leather, piercings, used-clothes and tattoos do not a hipster make.
She explained that she had put together the aftercare bags to ensure people used the right products for all their piercings.
He said he would conduct about six piercings in an average week, the majority of those being bellybuttons.
If there is mild swelling, itching, or redness at the piercing site, you may be allergic to the jewelry that was placed.
He denied having had a sexually transmitted disease, urinary tract infection, previous paraphimosis, instrumentation, piercings, or obstructive symptoms.
His black hair dye, piercings, and all of the other punk-related objects were gone.
She had long hair, which was tied back in a ponytail and she had facial piercings or facial jewellery.
A cop killer bullet used tobe defined as any armor piercing bullet and especially any of the Nyclad (teflon coated hardened core) bullets available only to law enforcement. Obama Administration Looks To Reinstate Assault-Weapons Ban
First of all, there is a significant difference between tattooing the body, cutting the body, piercing the body, painting the body and writing on the body.
Some of the largest structures we saw there were salt dome that had salt piercing in the center of them, and that piercing salt and generator resulted in a lot of what we call radial fault. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
Suddenly they spotted a group of blue and green lights piercing through the fog. The Sun
Off he strolled down the drive, the silver rings and studs in his facial piercings sparkling cheerfully.
She hadn't really meant to lie, but their piercing questions had forced her to.
We were rewarded with the sound of calling Whooping Cranes piercing the quiet of the early morning, then a close fly over.
To help the doggies along, Mercer sounds a horn that emits an ear-piercing wail from his plane.
That they were is not only compelling evidence that DU [Depleted Uranium] ammunition and armour-piercing technology were present, it is compelling evidence that Bush's 'official conspiracy theory' of 911 is utter bullshit! Why were 'first responders' de-contaminated at the Pentagon?
His crest hung on the wooden wall, the black hawk with wings perched in a frightful pose staring at her with its piercing golden eyes.
She looked to be in her early thirties, long blonde hair and intelligent, piercing green eyes.
He had merely stood there, tall and silent, piercing her with his incessant gaze, until her words had died to a senseless babble.
She lay sprawled out across the flagstones relishing the piercing cold and the blistering heat.
Despite his plain clothing he was very striking with short neatly-combed back auburn hair, an oval face, a baby-faced countenance, a medium, but short build and piercing, limpid bluish-green eyes.
Then a piercing panic hit me: What if the lawyers found this broken glass? Of course they'd suspect foul play.
There was a piercing, petrifying, eldritch screech.
A song burst forth right over their heads with the peculiar piercingness of a boys voice when he sings with all his might. Chapter XII
Yawn in a semiswoon lay awailing and (hooh!) what helpings of honeyful swoothead (phew!), which ear-piercing dulcitude! Finnegans Wake
The sound a piercing slap caused her to jump back, eyes scanning for the two brawling individuals.
In Act Two, though, the excellence of the play surmounts all obstacles, and hits piercingly home.
Everywhere, black, thorned leaves stormed down on the citizenry, piercing their flesh or leaving long, vicious cuts. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
There are exceptions to what I said, since flechettes and armor piercing rounds were designed with armor in mind.
He had red tipped hair and three piercings in one ear.
They were all treading through ankle-deep snow in the lot, holding their jackets up to their necks against the piercing gale.
Alexis screamed in fear and panic, the piercing shriek echoing throughout the empty library.
She had two piercings in each ear and in the holes she wore hoops with a Celtic design and balls in the middle.
And so I’m also thinking about repiercing my nose, but I’m not sure because I mean I liked it, it was cute yanno, but I mean it was kind of annoying too. Aleighk21 Diary Entry
It was like a million sharp needles were piercing my skin, and I began to scream aloud.
Women travellers should also avoid ill-fitting bikinis, armpit hair, white strap marks, streaky tans, cellulite, tattoos, body piercing and getting drunk.
They heard one last ear-piercing shriek and then the sound of the wolf whimpering as though it had been hurt.
Just so everyone's clear: the most common forms of female genital cutting are not morally, or physically, analogous to genital piercing.
It is used in armour-piercing ammunition. Times, Sunday Times
Sherlock Holmes gave him a piercing glance.
Parents would rather their kids go in for glitter as they feel it is a better option to piercing or tattooing the body.
The D minor Quartet is by far the most tragic of the six, with a piercing sadness that sometimes borders on gloominess.
These intervention programs make use of lay leadership in churches, schools, beauty salons, barbershops, tattoo and body piercing salons, and laundromats.
One of the helicopters opens fire with armour-piercing shells. Mail and Guardian
There are the requisite dark interiors, piercing blades of light, gunplay a-plenty, saucy dames, and stumbling stoolies.
Instead, she fixed him with her piercing blue eyes. Times, Sunday Times
His less visible piercing, called a hasada, is also a visual adornment.
There was a group of punky girls behind us, with torn tartan clothing and many body piercings
She felt foolish and unsure under his piercing gaze .
The rock face rose impressively above her, piercing the landscape like a skyscraper over an anthill.
However, Christian was not long for the job after one of his managers told him that he had to remove his piercings while at work.
He was dressed neatly enough, but not too poshly, and he had dark brown hair, tanned skin and piercing greenish-blue eyes.
Tucker possessed piercing blue eyes, pale, slightly watery of the kind usually possessed by homicidal nutters in Hollywood thrillers.
There's charm here, but it's closely allied to wit and shares with it a piercing quality.
The changes, which could come into force as soon as October, would require cosmetic body piercing businesses to register with local authorities and adhere to by-laws.
As with a foreign object, sometimes the body rejects a body piercing and expels it or causes it to migrate.
he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din
A tall gray man with piercing eyes and a sternly lined face remained firmly seated in the pinto's saddle, while four winged men, wearing clothing not too much unlike ploughmen's attire, circled the deck.
But that note is a piercing sound. Times, Sunday Times
Several struck him, piercing his armor and numbing his limbs with cold, but the stoic fighter shrugged it off and rushed the foe again.
And cricket bats that emit a loud and piercing whistle to keep the crowd awake. Times, Sunday Times
In John's Gospel, again, we find the two forms 'Simon Peter' and the simple 'Peter' used throughout with almost equal frequency, while 'Simon' is only employed at the very beginning, and in the heart-piercing triple question at the end, 'Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me?' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
Suddenly they spotted a group of blue and green lights piercing through the fog. The Sun
In the first scene, the First Citizen describes the Senate the 1% of ancient Rome: They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. What Shakespeare Thought About the 1%
The gun fires a shell capable of piercing the armour of an enemy tank.
Soft tissue infection is an acceptable, if not expected, complication of piercing, but high ear piercing often results in auricular perichondritis.
They wait for what seems an eternity in the waiting area amongst a baby's cries, coughs, splutters and a awkward, piercing, silence.
I try to let it sound natural and warm, more than drilling too much in the squillo ," he said, referring to the piercing sound singers use to project over an orchestra. The Smoldering Tenor
He excels at playing shilpit, it's true, but there's something else going on behind those piercing blue eyes today.
She is described as Metis, 5-foot-6, 129 pounds, with brown curly hair extending to the middle of her back, brown eyes, a piercing in her left eyebrow and possibly a piercing in her lower lip, police said. Winnipeg Sun
Australian "cooee," following it up with a shrill piercing note from a little silver whistle; but the only response was the cry of an _ara_, one of the great scarlet and blue long-tailed macaws, whose harsh shriek came softened from the distance. Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco
He doesn't have so many piercings or tattoos, but he wears a lot of black.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
While body modification has become mainstream, this documentary sounds a note of caution for those thinking about piercing, expanding or otherwise changing their appearance. Times, Sunday Times
No hastier retreat was ever beaten, and I took away with me the haunting image of the bland expressions and the horribly pallid complexions of the people staring at us through the chained door, their eyes piercing through you, their skin so white and deathly. ɘloЯ
What other game could offer such grand spectacle, such majestic thrill, such sheer piercing insight into the raging heart of man!
She studied for her motorcycle license, got her own piercings — "You can see small scars," she said, fingering her eyebrow — and worked out with a Serbian kickboxer five days a week. The Girl Who Played Salander
The performer appears on the cover sporting what looks like a nostril piercing but not much else.
With his piercing eyes, his eloquent and hypnotic manner of speaking, his neck and wrists covered in Santa Muerte scapulars and Santería-like beads, the self-anointed priest had developed an enthusiastic following in the northern suburbs of the city. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
I made my toilet by the mirror of a quiet pool; and as I was so doing, and smiling with some complacency to see myself restored to my own image, the mountains rang with a scream of far more than human piercingness; and while I still stood astonished, there sprang up and swiftly increased a storm of the most awful and earth-rending sounds. The Dynamiter
Corresponding to these marks are five small actual holes piercing the thickness of the paper cover to reveal glints of the flyleaf beneath.
Guests received Ear Charms, ear-cuff jewelry that wraps on the ear without piercing or clipping, glasses with magnetized clip-on shades by Chemistrie, bath products for pets by I Heart Pet Head, mosquito repelling candles from Bite-Lite. Zorianna Kit: 2012 Grammy Awards Gifting Suites
Septic arthritis and acute glomerulonephritis have occurred following ear piercing, and infectious endocarditis has been reported after body piercing.
So they all stripped naked, this included all piercing, and placed their clothes on the table.
As regards the musculation attention is given especially to the varieties found in the face; measuring the thickness of the soft parts of the face (by piercing with needles such parts in fresh or preserved cadavers) also yields good results, when there are sufficient subjects for investigation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Inner conch piercing looks very similar to lobe piercing, but it is placed on the inner conch and surrounds the lower outer helix.
The piercing ring seemed to get louder, like the ticking of a bomb about to explode.
He was cut off in mid-sentence by a loud and piercing scream from the rear of the wagon.
Alex fired madly at Gabriel's body, piercing his torso, legs, and arms multiple times.
That cold, piercing fear. It could come quickly or slowly, brought on by who knows what.
These drugs fight the bugs by piercing the microbes and attacking their means of reproduction.
I might have removed it, but Bari had done a poor job in piercing me, as you’d expect from a sun-addled girl without previous piercing experience. Requiem For A Ring
Then, their ears protected against the piercing whine,[sentence dictionary] they activated the suction pump.
Lucy's eyes, moreover, were riveted on her face, on its colour, its fineness of feature, its brilliance and piercingness of expression. The History of David Grieve
A piercing fax-like screech literally hurt my ears, then the requisite disconnect.
Soon enough, the boat's whistle began to blow an eerie piercing sound as the water vehicle began moving.
Following each five piercings, the needle was dipped into a small vial containing 0 • 1 mL chloroform.
Vocalizations are variable with species, and range from the sharp piercing whistle of the tropicbirds to the guttural grunting of cormorants.
She and the guys turned to go, their peaceful silence only to be interrupted by a loud, piercing scream.
Fredrico's sharp, piercing eyes stabbed into Lind.
When he was born, when I saw him for the first time, the ecstasy that I felt was piercing, electric, transfiguring, a jolt of joy.
It passes medialward upon the Brachialis, and piercing the medial intermuscular septum, winds around the back of the humerus between the Triceps brachii and the bone, forming, by its junction with the profunda brachii, an arch above the olecranon fossa. VI. The Arteries. 4b. 2. The Brachial Artery
Despite this he had piercing azure eyes, that hinted at his sharp and nimble mind.
Her shrieking, wailing voice was the whisper of mortality piercing the ears like the banshee's own call, a twin to the driving terror that pierced the mind.
Then, going to the bag, her compressed lips twitching, her gray eyes piercing into its clasp with a kind of distrustful optimism, she lifted the pincers and tweaked it hard. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
I was too busy giving thanks for the meal, for the piercing strangeness of truffles, for the rich amusement of the evening.
He finds a woman in black lace, with piercing eyes and a mobile face.
He was very tall and lanky and had flowing blonde hair and really piercing blue eyes.
Quite pretty with piercing blue eyes and a turned up nose. Times, Sunday Times
It took me just one step out to be confronted with piercing wind and the black hostile waves of the North Sea a mere hundred yards away.
She let out a piercing scream and grabbed her temple. The Sun
He had a chubby face, stubble, dark brown piercing eyes, dark eyebrows and short dark hair.
He is a child in sensibility, while a youth in the vividness, and a man in the grasp, the piercingness and the copiousness of his thoughts. The Opium Habit
One of them had a voice so loud and piercing that you could hear him from one end of the carriage to the other.
Although derived from Philadelphia designs, provincial elements include an angular shell on the front seat rail and the omission of two long teardrop piercings in the base of the slat, making it look heavy.
The piercing is usually made just above the navel, and a short, straight bar with screw-on metal balls on either end is inserted through the hole.
For instance, to heal The typical hemipteran piercing-sucking mouthparts insects, bedbugs have a head, an abdomen, a thorax, and six legs. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
In 1943 tungsten (which they used for their armour-piercing solid shot) supplies from Portugal were stopped and Albert Speer turned over the German stockpile of 1200 tons of uranium ore to replace the tungsten. Oh. My. God.
Hers was a loud, piercing cry that sounded as if she was in pain.
Gerald of Wales' Monmouth archers in 1190 could have played havoc with mail-clad knights and horses using bows and archers that were a lot less powerful than the armour-piercing longbow of Agincourt or the Mary Rose. Bowmen in medieval Wales
He said he has one tattoo on the middle of his back and six piercings - two ear gauges, an industrial piercing on his left ear, two nipple piercings and a labret, which is a piercing below the lip and above the chin. ASU Web Devil - ASU's Online News Source -
Early this morning, after a rare restless and mostly sleepless night, I was awoken from a very deep sleep by the unmistakable, piercingly loud bark/howl of a coyote that sounded like it was right outside in my front yard. The Coyote--to Shoot or Not to Shoot. That is the Question.
Also, in an interval, her eyes malevolent in her rage, she chattered piercing curses at Alphonso. CHAPTER XXIX
She bit her lip, digging her sharp canine into the soft skin, piercing it all the harder as she lapsed into deeper thought.
Her eyes, hazel in colour, were very piercing.
A blade of light stabbed through the curtains, piercing Jeff Drake's dream.
Tunguska event"; fire and "depopulation" - "An ear-piercing" whistling "sound, which might be understood as being a manifestation of the electrophonic phenomena which have been discussed in WGN over the past few years; the sun appearing to be" blood-red "before the explosion. Signs of the Times
The birds are high in the canopy, giving occasional piercing and enigmatic whistles, or lightning-swift flashes of unanalysable colour. Times, Sunday Times
In the context of an interview with mainstream corporate America, it's best to cover your tattoos and piercings with long-sleeved shirts, blouses, collars, and such.
The air seemed to beat against my ear drums, vibrating with the piercing rattle of insects… cicada's, grasshoppers and huge black beetles.
The bull is encouraged to charge one of the picadors, who can now attack it with the lance, piercing its neck and back muscles in order to make it lower its head, without which it would be impossibly dangerous to fight on foot.
Ajax, and piercing through the folds of the clypei septemplicis with the poisonous shafts of his scorn. The Paris Sketch Book
While woodchucks tend to be pretty silent, their cousins are quite vocal and emit loud piercing whistles or chirps at the slightest provocation.
No more though, they began to cry for mercy as the school collectively recoiled from the piercing sound that had broken the silence.
This is brought to the fore by that stupid and ignorant piece in The Sunday Telegraph where correspondent Sean Rayment is quivering with excitement over the emergence in theatre of something entirely new to him, "the armour-piercing 'explosively formed projectile' or EFP, also known as a shaped charge. Tip of the iceberg
Surely my piercings aren't a sign that I'm an old fart?
With the growing popularity of body art - tattoos, piercings, skin scratching and so on - comes a new level of exhibitionism.
On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest. Erema
When we went out the first time, a piercing wind had whipped the tops off the crashing waves to send biting showers of stinging sea water at us.
She heard him curse, felt him grab her arm, then felt the blinding pain of the knife piercing her flesh.
Bon la j'prepare des foto des mes trous sans piercing histoire de dissuader les pouf qui veulent en faire pour etre fashion. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
An American cackle, piercing my ear, and I shuddered away by instinct, which was sound judgment, for if I felt dreadful, she looked worse, a raddled slattern grinning her stinking breath into my face, reaching out a fat hand across my chest. THE NUMBERS
She smiled, holding me hostage with her piercing eyes.
Norma was standing on the porch shaking her hands wildly and uttering piercing cries. SLEEP WHILE I SING
To my left and right stood two sets of rusted metal gates where the ear-piercing screams of agony ripped through the air, blocking out all other noise.
As a tomboy youngster, it was one of my great regrets that I could not manage to generate a piercing rallying call to assemble my pals for a spot of light tree-climbing or scrumping.
Even then he had responded emotionally, as he would assert, to the deep, piercing sadness of the music.
But … throughout Lent, through the poetic piercing stanzas of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete and in the presanctified liturgies and Vespers services always ending every service was the Lenten prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian: Stones Cry Out
Where so long I have heard only the brattling and moaning of the wind, what means this tenser, far-piercing sound?
Suddenly, a piercing scream filled the venue. The Sun
At night, I was awakened by the piercing wind and burrowed under the quilt to escape the cold.
He runs a hand through his thick, dark-blonde hair and stares, unsmiling, with piercing blue eyes.
It was a loud and piercing sound that filled the entire room.
The moment that followed was like the scream heard round the stables: piercing in quickness and surreal in scope. French Word-A-Day:
She was known for her deep, piercing eyes and dusky, throaty voice that always seemed to command the full attention of audiences.
However, as I like being in the open, later on I return to the stern, which was the only place to escape the piercing wind.
By supermini standards, this is a cool car with a striking wedge shape and piercing lights. The Sun
While aesthetic surgery is related in many ways to other physical interventions, from hairweaving to tattooing and body piercing, it is performed in the quite different context of the institution of medicine.
Its wrought iron surface stared at him impassively, the fathomless depths of shadow that served as eyeholes piercing him like knives.
I'll have some free fiction for you guys tomorrow, and the Fairyland audio will go up tonight--we just ran out of time with having to go to Boston to have my angry subdermal piercing removed. Monday Monday Monday
Her mouth opened wide and she let out a piercing screech.
There is something Jurassic about the place, with layers of rainforest lining the mainland and shrouds of limestone precipices piercing low lying clouds, you can't help but feel as though time has been rewound by thousands of years. Maria Russo: The Seductive Serenity of Krabi, Thailand
He had a swashbuckling posture; but such was his powerful physique and piercing look, it seemed natural rather than boastful or proud. Seminary Boy
Shrewd in business, he had a ready wit and a distinctive appearance, with a full beard and piercing eyes.
He's always been a pretty conservative bloke so I was surprised to see him become a devotee of piercings. The Sun
Opposite him sat a tall girl who looked to be no more than in her early twenties with long curly dark brown hair and thin piercing grey eyes.
A piercing scream split the air.
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. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 58
They were all treading through ankle-deep snow in the parking-lot, holding their jackets up to their necks against the piercing gale.
He was a stern, vindictive man with piercing dark eyes and a booming basso voice which always made her shudder.
All I could hear was a series of piercing bangs and whistles and orange lights.
The sharp, piercing shriek of the morning bell sounded in from within the school building, echoing through the campus.
A piercing shriek attracted the workmen from the factory to the spot; Madame Delmare had fainted on the bank, and Noun's body was floating in the water at her feet. Indiana
The focus of his gaze has a startlingly piercing quality; an intensity that seems to strike at your very core.
Being so hard, its density twice that of lead - it is used to tip armour-piercing shells and built into the armour of military vehicles.
Eris tucked hair behind her ear, revealing three piercings in her earlobe and a tribal line tattoo behind and beneath her ear, along the hairline. Arcane Circle
Many times since Old Father had given him this gift, he had used its intense, piercing sound to send him into reveries. THE BROKEN GOD
It is now given practically free of charge to the military and arms manufacturers and is used both as tank armour, and in armour-piercing shells known as depleted uranium penetrators. Think Progress » Bush Knew 10 Marines Had Died Prior To Rose Garden Remarks, Didn’t Mention It
The dream she went on to pursue, once she left the button-down world of Big Five accounting, went well beyond piercing her epidermis with pigment-laden needles.
Abruptly he stopped, the sharp, piercing cry of a bird reaching his hearing.
The following miscellaneous forging operations are briefly presented: coining, heading, piercing, hubbing, cogging, fullering and edging, roll forging, and skew rolling.

How To Use Piercing In A Sentence

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