piercingly

ADVERB
  1. in a shrill voice
    she sang rather shrilly
  2. extremely and sharply
    bitter cold
    it was bitterly cold
    bitter cold
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How To Use piercingly In A Sentence

  • Loach's social-realist drama, written by his longtime collaborator Paul Laverty, is a distinctive, piercingly serious vision.
  • In Act Two, though, the excellence of the play surmounts all obstacles, and hits piercingly home.
  • 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.
  • Wines whose pH is between 3.2 and 3.5 tend to taste refreshingly rather than piercingly acid.
  • January was drawing to its close; the weather was growing more and more winterly; high winds, piercingly cold, were raving through our narrow streets; and still the spirit of social festivity bade defiance to the storms which sang through our ancient forests. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English
  • Everything comes with side dishes of achard (pickles) and chatini (chutney), and a paste, made from crushed green chillies, that is a misleading shade of avocado green but as piercingly hot as wasabi. The Guardian World News
  • What was it about a waistcoat that was so piercingly sexy? she wondered dully.
  • It's a piercingly bright day in Bournemouth, the sea is sparkling, the little blue road-train is shuttling tourists down to the pier, and inflation is at its lowest rate in 30 years.
  • This piercingly aromatic, citrus fruit and gooseberry-like white is drier and much closer to Sancerre than most Kiwi interpretations of the grape.
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