The word "piercing" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe a sound or a look that is sharp and loud, or intense and penetrating. Example sentence: The piercing scream of the hawk filled the air.
A disc of feathers around its face gives it the piercing gaze and acute hearing of an owl.
But the sheer relentlessness of their anger ("Elvis never meant shit to me... my heroes don't appear on no stamps") and cold scientific analysis of prejudice ("black father, white mother, black baby"), combined with the sound of a drill piercing your head, made for something urgent and spellbinding.
Emily Berry's Dear Boy (Faber) fizzes with verbal inventiveness and fantastical, darkly comic storytelling; while Fiona Moore's pamphlet The Only Reason for Time (HappenStance Press) is full of elegant, gently piercing observations that build to a compelling portrait of love and loss and the overcoming of grief.
He must be nearly 70 but still has his trademark saturnine good looks: piercing eyes, curly black hair and a deep chocolate voice.
An armoured police vehicle began blasting a piercing loud noise to try to disperse the crowd.
Chambres Avec Vue is in Mont-Saint-Aignan, on a hill above Rouen, and the higher you go in the house, the more you see of the piercing spires of the Gothic cathedral below.
This can shear the armour-piercing spike into bits, which are then less likely to pierce the underlying armour.The Israel Defence Forces, shaken by their losses during the Yom Kippur war, developed an early but effective explosive-reactive armour that kept tank losses exceptionally light during the 1982 Lebanon war.
The most zealous pierced their cheeks with skewers or attached large wooden icons to their bodies with dozens of flesh-piercing hooks.
That the arrow acquires the force needed for its piercing action and that it pierces an animal, rather than a tree, depends on the hunter's shooting it with the intention to kill the animal.
Elsewhere, in a parallel Cannes, the delegates visit Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako's heart-piercing lament for his homeland of Mali, which is overrun by Islamic extremists.
Armour-piercing bullets keep evil men in power.
