punctured

How To Use punctured In A Sentence

• The man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries - a deep wound to his side had punctured a lung.
• I've got a face like a punctured beachball, like an arse that's fallen downstairs, like a rucksack full of dented bells. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
• Armstrong said the Spaniard's tyre had punctured as they braked for a corner.
• The end of the road had come for the SAP, which rumbled and shook violently, punctured wing panels beginning to peel away in the slipstream.
• Ishrat was seated next to Javed who was driving the car when the crime branch team fired and punctured the rear left tyre.
• This is a very knotty question; it is like asking how far a dropsical man may be punctured without his dying under the operation; this depends on the prudence of the physician. A Philosophical Dictionary
• If the boot is full of luggage - two of you are away for a weekend - then that has to be removed to make space for the punctured tyre.
• Obviously the inner layer was punctured because the outer skin was burning hot against her chill fingers.
• The single blow punctured a lung and he died in hospital a week later.
• One bullet had punctured the spare tire and flattened it as well.