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.
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  • 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.
  • Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Yellow; the antennæ fuscous above, also a fuscous cloud at the apex of the anterior wings, the wings hyaline with the nervures black; a spot on the scape within, and three longitudinal stripes on the mesothorax, black; the latter slightly punctured anteriorly; the metathorax smooth and shining, with three oblique carinæ on each side, and a small subovate enclosed space in the middle of the disk. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • They fired several rounds from handguns and semi-automatic rifles at the vehicle, which finally came to a halt about 500 metres from the depot with all four wheels punctured.
  • The punctured part on a boy's arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
  • Black and punctured, with thin long griseous pubescence; the vertex, disk of the thorax, and the abdomen shining; the mandibles and clypeus yellow, the latter with a black bell-shaped spot in the middle; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the tibiæ with a yellow line outside. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Elliot still was snuffling in his punctured sleep.
  • In places it is punctured by bollards and peeled back to form benches, revealing glazed voids packed with multi-coloured fluorescent tubes that scintillate seductively with kaleidoscopic light.
  • Black; the head and thorax strongly punctured; the mandibles, clypeus, a line above extending to the anterior ocellus, the emargination of the eyes, a spot at their vertex and a line at their outer orbits, yellow; the antennæ reddish-yellow, with the scape pale yellow in front and a narrow fuscous line above; the yellow marking more or less stained orange. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • One of the knife blows had punctured a lung.
  • Huge coal trucks have almost run Bonds's car off the road, and two local activists had their tires punctured when they went to file paperwork for a hearing.
  • Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • The rear tyre got punctured, but with the help of a couple of menial workers and a beggar, my father was able to push the car to the tyre repair garage.
  • To cap Flanagan's misfortune, he punctured with 15 miles to go and there was an immediate charge from the front of his bunch, capitalising on his ill luck.
  • Thomas, who is in Ward 22 at the hospital, is recuperating from the gunshot wounds he suffered to his chest last Friday, one bullet having punctured his lung.
  • We will show that the area of this ring is equal to the area of the corresponding cross section of the dome, which implies that the dome and the punctured prism have equal volumes.
  • One bullet punctured his lung.
  • You could check to see if the firing pins are stuck by putting a piece of thin masking tape on the back of some spent shells and see if the tape is marked or punctured. Stupid Moves
  • She suffered head injuries, a ruptured spleen, punctured lung and a displaced eye socket. The Sun
  • This completely shattered my pride and punctured my ego and self-respect.
  • And just like I am constantly "punctured" by images including how other parents see their kids, I too want to "puncture". Exposed
  • We continued to watch in silence as the smoke slowly dissipated, leaving only the cloudless, star-punctured sky.
  • Thorax: the disk very closely punctured, the metathorax rugose; the sides and the legs with a fine glittering sericeous pile, the wings subhyaline, their apical margins fuscous, the nervures fuscous. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • She was taken to the hospital with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
  • This species also belongs to the division Liacos; the petiolated cell is small and oblong-quadrate; the male exactly resembles the female, except that its head is smaller and narrower than the thorax; the abdomen is rather more strongly punctured. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Ben instinctively yanked it back, but his eardrum felt punctured. Shore Thing
  • Black, punctured and opake; the clypeus terminating in a sharp-pointed angle; the base and apex of the mandibles rufo-piceous; the scape ferruginous in front; the face with a thin, fine, griseous pubescence. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • If the material is accidentally punctured, it can be repaired quickly using mylar tape and bitumen.
  • They were brown and pentangular, with a short stem, and slightly punctured at the intersections. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • Curving appendages attached to oblong shapes or to punctured spheres in some of the works may allude to other life-forms such as insects or invertebrates.
  • At that, he squeezed my hand so tightly his fingernails punctured my skin. Times, Sunday Times
  • Head, thorax, and legs black; the two former closely punctured and thinly covered with short cinereous pubescence; the metathorax with the punctures running into transverse striæ in the middle; the sides of the thorax and the legs with a fine silky silvery-white pile; the tibiæ and tarsi strongly spinose; wings fusco-hyaline; abdomen entirely red, smooth and shining. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • She underwent emergency surgery and is said to be in a stable condition after suffering a punctured lung. The Sun
  • Grassroots peasant activists burned crops, mined and barricaded roads, derailed trains, set fire to buildings, beat up strikebreakers and punctured the tyres of blackleg drivers.
  • Methods Free umbilical cords were punctured under color - ultrasound in 42 pregnant women for prenatal diagnosis.
  • His voice is a reedy hush, like a jet of water issuing from a punctured pipe.
  • She underwent emergency surgery and is said to be in a stable condition after suffering a punctured lung. The Sun
  • She suffered head injuries, a ruptured spleen, punctured lung and a displaced eye socket. The Sun
  • With eight miles remaining, the Irish trio were holding 1: 24 ahead but then tragedy struck when Mark Lovett punctured and they lost their momentum.
  • And, just like the pulse-ox's SpO2 readout is just a proxy for oxyhemoglobin content, an output of carboxyhemoglobin in grams per dL is more reproducible and medically significant than a percentage full disclosure: I've worked with one of these authors, he's the same one who punctured the myth that nail polish tarnishes pulse oximetry readings. Archive 2005-03-01
  • In one raid the previous winter a shell splinter had punctured his lung. Bomber
  • Talk about punctuated (or maybe that should be "punctured") equilibrium. The $4 Billion Man
  • One day, while returning from the suburbs, my bicycle tire was punctured.
  • My positive mood was rather punctured by the news.
  • Punctured breathing units spewed methane and blossomed into flame.
  • The perpetrator cut off the tyres, punctured the diesel tank and broke windows in the vehicle.
  • The tire punctured a mile from home.
  • He wasn't hurt, but his dignity was punctured.
  • It makes sense to always carry a spare inner tube with you for emergencies, and repair the punctured one at your leisure. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is in hospital, suffering from a punctured lung.
  • Sigmund Freud's theories have been punctured and pricked with doubt, but anyone who argues that he should be dropped from the canon of Western civilization needs therapy.
  • Yellow; the antennæ fuscous above, also a fuscous cloud at the apex of the anterior wings, the wings hyaline with the nervures black; a spot on the scape within, and three longitudinal stripes on the mesothorax, black; the latter slightly punctured anteriorly; the metathorax smooth and shining, with three oblique carinæ on each side, and a small subovate enclosed space in the middle of the disk. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • As I sat there, a dormouse scuttled right out from under my boots: I'd disturbed its lunch, and there was a clutter of precision-punctured hazelnut shells among the leaf litter.
  • He had an encyclopedic command of the field of knowledge, and by a word or a phase, by delicate rapier thrust, he punctured them.
  • The camera twice pauses on a riveting image of a dying knight, blood spraying from his punctured armor.
  • They fired several rounds from handguns and semi-automatic rifles at the vehicle, which finally came to a halt about 500 metres from the depot with all four wheels punctured.
  • The truck was riddled with shrapnel holes and shards had punctured the fuel drums of two Challenger tanks.
  • Head and thorax black and very closely punctured; the face covered with griseous pubescence; the clypeus with a central longitudinal carina. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • His enthusiasm for fishing had been punctured by the sight of what he might catch.
  • The adjacent low-lying ground, for half a mile in breadth, is a stagnant river, with melancholy trees for islands in it, and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling rain.
  • My positive mood was rather punctured by the news.
  • The distal open end of the sheath is guided through a punctured hole in the interatrial septum and into the left atrium.
  • If you have a basic idea how to replace a punctured tire with a stepney it can save you time waiting for a mechanic.
  • The evidence at trial revealed that on August 14, 2001, a 55-gallon drum of tetrachloroethylene, also known as perchloroethylene or "perc," was accidentally punctured on the property of Martin Warehousing and Storage, a company based at Sand Island. Hawaii Reporter
  • Detectives believe the killer punctured his car tyre to make him stay behind after work.
  • Visible even from a distance, its argentine spires punctured the horizon with needles of light, whilst its great walls reflected the rays of the rising sun.
  • Doctors reported punctured lungs and fatally damaged livers and kidneys. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was laughing to myself that it was only a matter of time before it punctured a tyre on a car, when a bus drove over the hubcap and send it flying out from under the rear wheels.
  • Had the peak risen up from the waters and punctured the keel, thereby skewering the vessel in place?
  • The outer skin of the aircraft was not punctured.
  • A) The Nick Clegg novelty bounce at first plateaued and now has eroded -- or "punctured" -- in the last week of the campaign. William E. Jackson Jr.: Is the Prime Minister Becoming More Presidential?
  • This completely shattered my pride and punctured my ego and self-respect.
  • He is a whiner, a whinger, his air of menace punctured by the feeling that he is moderately preposterous. Times, Sunday Times
  • Welch gasped like a leaky flue, hugged his punctured tripes, and slowly doubled over, fell flat on his smeller. The Big Book of Pulps
  • But the inflated opinion Woodgate had apparently developed of himself in a rapid rise to fame and fortune seemed to be punctured by the court cases.
  • He pulled out his combat knife and punctured his air bag sending a blast of hot compressed air in his direction.
  • The earlier mood of optimism had been punctured.
  • She once spent two months on a life-support machine after her lung was punctured by a drug tube. The Sun
  • The knife punctured his lung and heart. The Sun
  • His rubber ball punctured when it fell on a prickly bush.
  • Like prickly pear thorns, needle grass penetrated moccasins and leather leggings and punctured the skin.
  • When the paunch is to be punctured, the animal must be stabbed with a knife (a penknife will do) midway between the haunch-bone and the last rib of the left side; and the opening should be prevented from closing, by the introduction of a tin tube or something of that kind, till the gases are dispelled. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • Photographs and video footage from the scene showed charred lorries, their frames buckled by blast waves and intense heat, and punctured by shrapnel. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the quasi-fuchsian subgroups correspond to pairs of once-punctured tori, but as one tends to the boundary a certain curve on one of the tori may get squeezed to a point.
  • A visit to the local hospital did not improve matters as the doctor inadvertently punctured a small sac in his elbow which required extensive treatment back in Melbourne.
  • He was taken to hospital with a punctured lung.
  • Obviously the inner layer was punctured because the outer skin was burning hot against her chill fingers.
  • In intravenous drug abusers it can occur where a vein is regularly punctured with a needle.
  • Yet he does not want to see that attack, which consisted of the car being covered in broken eggs and the tyres punctured, as yet another example of a sectarian attack upon him.
  • Then replace the punctured rear wheel with the inflated front wheel.
  • Chupacabra harpooned the flesh of the fish with his terrible quills; he tore the throats of the birds with his terrible claws: he punctured the creatures of the land with his terrible fangs. How Chupacabra Broke the Heart of God
  • Punctured plastic bags blow across the adjacent plots of waste land.
  • His unexpected failure punctured his self-importance.
  • More telling was that the past days have punctured holes in the idea of them having a strong and organised rearguard. Times, Sunday Times
  • Had the peak risen up from the waters and punctured the keel, thereby skewering the vessel in place?
  • Meanwhile, Francine, the family's long-serving and eager-to-leave maid, finds her polite and deferent veneer punctured at the end of a lengthy and explosive conflict in which her husband Albert tries to intervene physically. Jeff Kelly Lowenstein: Clybourne Park Explores Other Side of Raisin in the Sun
  • He broke his shoulder, fractured eight ribs, punctured a lung and almost died.
  • One bullet punctured his lung.
  • In one raid the previous winter a shell splinter had punctured his lung. Bomber
  • If the teether is punctured by a baby's tiny teeth, the gel could be ingested. Nuby teethers recalled because gel filling is contaminated
  • Billy Martin once called plays by phone, from his hospital bed, while convalescing from a punctured lung.
  • League hopes punctured by their bizarre 'beachball' loss at Sunderland, must establish their European credentials Tuesday with a Champions League win Liverpool and Rangers both lose at home, while Arsenal dropped points on their WN.com - Articles related to I Will Not Lose My Faith In Barcelona - Pep Guardiola
  • People were literally getting serious, serious beating or kickings when they were plasticuffed you're talking broken ribs, punctured lungs sort of thing.
  • After the headmistress branded him a troublemaker and excluded him from the Christmas party, he punctured her car tyres with a nail and was swiftly expelled.
  • Like a shipwrecked man clinging to a punctured lifebuoy, Scotland found it increasingly difficult to keep their heads above water and it is to their credit that they were not entirely submerged before the finish.
  • Anything to reinflate that punctured credit bubble. Times, Sunday Times
  • This can be a dangerous procedure, because the lining of the vagina or uterus can accidentally be punctured, which is probably why the other physician suggested against it. at 6weeks i got heavy periods and baby came out did a scan next day and eveything was normal except little? en Español Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • It makes sense to always carry a spare inner tube with you for emergencies, and repair the punctured one at your leisure. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of the front tyres had punctured.
  • Obviously the inner layer was punctured because the outer skin was burning hot against her chill fingers.
  • Lieutenant Barnes was forced back to base on one engine with countless holes in his ship and one tire punctured.
  • He needed 19 stitches to the wound to his face, and had a deep cut to the back of the head which was caused by a screwdriver and a punctured muscle in his arm from a hook-like gardening tool.
  • More telling was that the past days have punctured holes in the idea of them having a strong and organised rearguard. Times, Sunday Times
  • A 17-year-old youth was left with a fractured skull, punctured lung and a cracked rib after he was attacked in the town's Monkwick Avenue in March this year.
  • The outer skin of the aircraft was not punctured.
  • Like prickly pear thorns, needle grass penetrated moccasins and leather leggings and punctured the skin.
  • I was convinced we'd punctured, but somehow the tyres, and the suspension, remained unaffected.
  • The punctured part on a boy’s arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab. III. A Continuation of Facts and Observations Relative to the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox. 1800
  • That's the sound of hot air escaping after pretense is punctured by a pointed question. A Voice from the Middle Ground
  • As I sat there, a dormouse scuttled right out from under my boots: I'd disturbed its lunch, and there was a clutter of precision-punctured hazelnut shells among the leaf litter.
  • To obtain blood samples, I punctured the vena ulnaris with a 26 gauge hypodermic needle and collected the blood in heparinized capillary tubes.
  • About a third of them will have been punctured and suffer from lead poisoning by the time they arrive on our shores. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sitting Bull, punctured so often in the past, was hit seven times.
  • a punctured balloon
  • To cap Flanagan's misfortune, he punctured with 15 miles to go and there was an immediate charge from the front of his bunch, capitalising on his ill luck.
  • The door was ripped in half, the ceiling was punctured in a dozen places, a gaping hole was left in the floorboards and the window frame was buckled under the impact of the explosion.
  • The outer skin of the aircraft was not punctured.
  • Their CVs are torn apart, their grandiose claims are punctured and their numbers are first crunched then ground underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
  • At this, Lance's ego seemed to be punctured slightly, but he kept at it.
  • Tattooed on his right arm were vines that wrapped twice around in a figure-eight with a punctured heart centered in the top loop and the dollar emblem emblazoned on the bottom.
  • They were brown, and pentangular, with a short stem, and slightly punctured at the intersections. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
  • He started 13 th last week and parked 74 laps later after his radiator punctured and the engine overheated.
  • Our mystery men soon establish the fact that their amnesia has resulted from inhaling the leaked contents of a punctured gas canister. Times, Sunday Times
  • Meanwhile, “Chicago” is so named because its bullet-ridden fake walls apparently recall the punctured real walls of Al Capone's Chicago. “Chicago”
  • The bullet punctured the skull.
  • Body black, punctured; antennae piceous; first joint obconic, not longer than the second and third together, which are equal; 4-10 joints moniliform; last joint ovate acute; palpi pale piceous; terminal joint minute, that of the labial longer; thorax oblong-quadrate; angles rounded; glabrous line none; elytra black piceous, punctures not Vol.IV. — 5 454 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
  • He was taken to hospital with a punctured lung.
  • The hearing in that ear was already impaired because an infection had been mistreated, and now she lost nearly all the hearing when a doctor, attempting to remove the rice, seems to have punctured her eardrum. Saluting a Centennial
  • Before Althea Gibson punctured the color barrier of women's tennis 52 years ago, the sport was a genteel game played with the tempo of a minuet and the athleticism of couch potatoes.
  • Had the peak risen up from the waters and punctured the keel, thereby skewering the vessel in place?
  • After slipping off his bike in the peloton, he had almost made up the distance, but then punctured his front tyre, and has slipped back again.
  • In 2001, he competed at the futurity with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
  • How would they know which way the lake lies, when most of the time - in this topsy-turvy capital, punctured by the tall green craters of half a dozen ancient volcanoes - they cannot even see the lake?
  • When you also look at this map it's a reminder of why Iowa was so significant, over here when Iowa made the decision to start allowing same-sex marriage, on this one issue, it kind of punctured this whole section of the United States. CNN Transcript May 30, 2009
  • Anything to reinflate that punctured credit bubble. Times, Sunday Times
  • The hurt of the stab is over the instant the skin is punctured. Stalking the Pestilence
  • He's being treated for a punctured lung at the town's general hospital.
  • Another inch and the sharp pencil could have punctured one of his main arteries. The Sun
  • The spear fell from his nerveless fingers as a sword punctured him from behind. Dragons of Winter Night
  • The driver lost control of his Peugeot 405 after a tyre punctured.
  • He punctured a tyre in the last lap.
  • Abdomen shining and rather finely punctured; the basal segment narrow and campanulate; the margins of the segments thickly fringed with silvery-white hair; the cheeks, sides of the thorax, and beneath the legs and abdomen with scattered long silvery-white hairs. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Its reputation of being a place of escalating communal tension has been punctured.
  • It was feared that he may have brain damage and his injuries included broken ribs, a broken jaw, a punctured lung and shattered nerves in his right arm and right leg.
  • The bullet punctured the skull.
  • Abdomen: the first segment with a transverse carina at its base, in front of which is an irregularly cut deep transverse channel forming a second carina in front of the groove; the segments finely punctured, the first and second segments with a yellow posterior border, the fourth and following segments rufo-piceous. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • The company has punctured this fragile mood of optimism with a miscalculation of astonishing proportions.
  • Obviously the inner layer was punctured because the outer skin was burning hot against her chill fingers.
  • She had a ruptured liver, one collapsed lung, one punctured lung, broken ribs and broken collar bone as well as the huge gash in her back and other injuries.
  • It is thought he was shot as he repaired his car tyre, which the killer had probably punctured.
  • Thrift has nearly killed her on several occasions, through the agency of old sausages, slow-punctured tyres, rusty blades.
  • Photographs and video footage from the scene showed charred lorries, their frames buckled by blast waves and intense heat, and punctured by shrapnel. Times, Sunday Times
  • And, just like the pulse-ox's SpO2 readout is just a proxy for oxyhemoglobin content, an output of carboxyhemoglobin in grams per dL is more reproducible and medically significant than a percentage full disclosure: I've worked with one of these authors, he's the same one who punctured the myth that nail polish tarnishes pulse oximetry readings. Archive 2005-03-01
  • He sustained a punctured colon, a collapsed lung, and a lacerated liver and kidney.
  • Black, punctured and opake; the clypeus terminating in a sharp-pointed angle; the base and apex of the mandibles rufo-piceous; the scape ferruginous in front; the face with a thin, fine, griseous pubescence. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • One part of the outer hull is punctured by a support beam from the larger ship.
  • Every time, a vehicle finds its tyre punctured in the middle of the road, the vendor control room of the area transmits signals to alert other vendors within a five kilometer radius.
  • They always get punctured, possibly by the cactus prop. The Sun
  • To let in light, they punctured 23 holes in the roof, at least one for every room, and covered them with Plexiglas bubbles.
  • Then some more native parties in short kimonos that showed their aboriginees punctured the near-horizon, and me and High had to skip back into Father Axletree's private boudoir. Options
  • The knife went through his ribs and punctured his lung.
  • On the front side of the left thigh, in the upper third, one sees a small punctured wound, with softened areas of the size of a mark coin, extravagated with blood. THE LAST FLIGHT
  • She was taken to hospital with a punctured lung.
  • Its massive knife-like edges beneath the water surface punctured and gashed the ship along 250 feet of its hull.
  • The technique is called caudal anesthesia (kaw'dul; "tail" L) because of the region of the body punctured. The Human Brain
  • A smug academic thinks he can intellectualise his way out of human problems of love and jealousy, and he is punctured.
  • Head transverse, slightly rugulose; third joint of the antennæ conical; arista thinly plumose; thorax very finely punctured; scutellum almost semicircular; abdomen blue, smooth; tarsi yellow; wings black, dark grey towards the hind border, with whitish points towards the costa; discal transverse vein parted by about its length from the border and by more than its length from the præbrachial transverse. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • He suffered a punctured lung, and fractured ribs and legs. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was taken to the hospital with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
  • It is possible for infection to occur, and miscarriage is a further possibility, for example if the amniotic sac has been punctured during the procedure.
  • What little suspense there might have been was punctured for me by Howard disclosing most of it.
  • Last week, while laying kerbing, the contractor I hired accidentally punctured the gas pipeline.
  • He had an encyclopedic command of the field of knowledge, and by a word or a phase, by delicate rapier thrust, he punctured them.
  • One of the children, a 15-year-old boy, says some of his friends bled and some areas were swollen where the girls had punctured them.
  • Red blood began to squirt out of his wound like water from a punctured water balloon.
  • He punctured my eardrum, drained the fluid and inserted a plastic tube.
  • His rubber ball punctured when it fell on a prickly bush.
  • The rope arrested my fall what climbers call a whipper and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I hadn't broken or punctured anything. After the Fall, a Lingering Doubt
  • His enthusiasm for fishing had been punctured by the sight of what he might catch.
  • Michlen has painful memories of fraternity life at university: paddle swats, punches and a punctured lung.

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