Sentence examples for pierce a wall from inspiring English sources

DealBook » An Effort to Pierce a Wall Street Fog  |  Thanks to investigators in Europe, we may learn more about what went on behind the scenes in the trillion-dollar market for credit-default swaps, Gretchen Morgenson writes in The New York Times.

One is clearly cetacean — a sculpture of a whaler's harpoon piercing a wall (courtesy of the artist Valerie Hegarty) greets you at the door.

The opening is equipped with a heavy door that can be barred from the inside, and pierces a wall made of concrete blocks.

Their house was destroyed, pushed off its foundation and hammered by trees that crashed through the roof and pierced a wall of the living room.

After Monday's mortar attack, Israeli tanks pounded the area with what Israeli press reports said were 25 hollow shells, each capable of piercing a wall and killing anyone in its path.

The thought is prompted by Skaer's presentation of this awesome specimen behind a wall pierced by vertical slits.

I had been O.K. with the tattoo she had gotten earlier in the year and the tragus piercing before that, but I hit a wall at the septum piercing.

They rest in overcrowded, windowless rooms or on the verandah, enjoying the few rays of sun that pierce the wall of tower blocks surrounding their small, derelict building.

Such deals are needed to pierce the wall of silence at the heart of the Cuban system by expanding access to cellphones and satellite television.

With so many variables besides just beating the bad guys -- level design, conversations with other characters, how the bullet holes look when they pierce the wall -- testers install cheats that allow them to bypass certain phases.

A bullet pierced the walls of a Forrest City, Ark., home and hit a woman in the knee Sunday night.