When Justine Evans (whom I took to be a canape specialist but turned out to be a canopy specialist) heard piercing cries of agony from her perch up a tree, she said calmly, "George has found an army-ant colony from the sound of it.
They hear sudden, piercing cries — "Hard!
The monitors aren't needed to hear the piercing hoot that is Ricky Gervais's laugh.
But when I opened its Web site to hear a piercing score of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons," I winced.
If the size of the crowd that came to hear that piercing criticism is a gauge, Mr. Naim may reach his circulation target.
They hear his piercing laugh and the long "Ahhhhhhhhh"s he utters as he pauses between words or thoughts, which veer off in surprising directions, and they have no other explanation.
When you reach for a bin for your belongings, you hear some piercing words from behind: "Hurry up! Can you take any longer?" What's your first inclination?
Keith Van Horn heard the piercing whistles all night.
Hearing the piercing shrieks of blue and yellow macaws overhead only made that realization more vivid.
So when we heard the piercing cry of our newborn and were told the baby had a high Apgar score, we believed we had successfully skirted the perils of pregnancy.
