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How to use the word Pierced in a Sentence?

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I don’t know how I survived. I don’t know how I survived the shelling. My eye was hanging out. I was concussed. My whole face was covered in blood. Shrapnel pierced my lungs through my body armor. – Ghazi Balkiz/CNN	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We had flung down the adze from the top of the fall and also the logbook and the cooker wrapped in one of our blouses. That was all, except our wet clothes, that we brought out of the Antarctic, which we had entered a year and a half before with well-found ship, full equipment, and high hopes. That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had suffered, starved, and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in his splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. – Sir Ernest Shackleton	added by anonymous 2 years ago
As he walked about the Capitol in a rumpled suit, almost always with a plain white shirt and pedestrian tie, carrying bulging files with the occasional paper flying away, Carl was the very picture of sober purpose and rectitude. In truth, he wasn’t unfun, in fact, he often pierced tense situations with self-deprecating humor, and he privately shared incisive observations about others with staff and colleagues. – Andy Levin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner – Rita Rudner	added by AudreyHempburn 2 years ago
As a result of the blows the thick glass ... was smashed, serious damage was done to the painting. The canvas was pierced in three places in the central part of the work which depicts the figure of the tsarevich (the tsar's son). – Tretyakov Gallery	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I had my nose pierced, you know in the middle, like a bull, at the time, in my early 20s, which people didn’t know, and I would hide it when I was doing my acting jobs. And so I flipped my nose ring down and was like… ‘Should we take this outside?’. – Katie Holmes	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They have apps to communicate on, which can not be pierced even with a court order. – Dianne Feinstein	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I don't enjoy getting pierced, but to break the record you have to get to a high level. – Elaine Davidson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it ,but it was under very surreptitious circumstances. – Lucy Alibar	added by anonymous 10 years ago
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you. – Saint Augustine, Confessions	added by anonymous 13 years ago
She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. – Olga Brouman	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I don’t know how I survived. I don’t know how I survived the shelling. My eye was hanging out. I was concussed. My whole face was covered in blood. Shrapnel pierced my lungs through my body armor.

– Ghazi Balkiz/CNN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had flung down the adze from the top of the fall and also the logbook and the cooker wrapped in one of our blouses. That was all, except our wet clothes, that we brought out of the Antarctic, which we had entered a year and a half before with well-found ship, full equipment, and high hopes. That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had suffered, starved, and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in his splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

– Sir Ernest Shackleton

added by anonymous
2 years ago

As he walked about the Capitol in a rumpled suit, almost always with a plain white shirt and pedestrian tie, carrying bulging files with the occasional paper flying away, Carl was the very picture of sober purpose and rectitude. In truth, he wasn’t unfun, in fact, he often pierced tense situations with self-deprecating humor, and he privately shared incisive observations about others with staff and colleagues.

– Andy Levin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner

– Rita Rudner

added by AudreyHempburn
2 years ago

As a result of the blows the thick glass ... was smashed, serious damage was done to the painting. The canvas was pierced in three places in the central part of the work which depicts the figure of the tsarevich (the tsar's son).

– Tretyakov Gallery

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I had my nose pierced, you know in the middle, like a bull, at the time, in my early 20s, which people didn’t know, and I would hide it when I was doing my acting jobs. And so I flipped my nose ring down and was like… ‘Should we take this outside?’.

– Katie Holmes

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They have apps to communicate on, which can not be pierced even with a court order.

– Dianne Feinstein

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I don't enjoy getting pierced, but to break the record you have to get to a high level.

– Elaine Davidson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it ,but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

– Lucy Alibar

added by anonymous
10 years ago

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

– Saint Augustine, Confessions

added by anonymous
13 years ago

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

– Olga Brouman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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