Sentence examples for piercing of from inspiring English sources

"It was a piercing of my heart," she recalls.

Girls attain adulthood by means of similar practices: the cutting or piercing of sexual organs.

Nevertheless, the piercing of the Hindenburg Line unnerved the German supreme command.

Seamless tubing involved the piercing of a round billet; this process was developed in Britain in 1841.

They noted that "the line linking the crater and the piercing of the vegetal screen can be conclusively established and has a bearing of 35 degrees".

Your correspondent arrived during a party to celebrate the ritual piercing of a child's septum for the insertion of a nose-ring.

Last month the Supreme Court upheld a federal law, passed in 2003, banning "partial-birth" abortions, a late-term procedure involving the piercing of a fetus's skull.

This momentary piercing of the Iron Curtain became one of the events that hastened the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of cold war Europe.

BCE also disposed of its large stake in the equipment maker Nortel Networks before Nortel's stock plummeted with the piercing of the technology bubble.

Piercing of the tongue can result in permanent numbness, difficulty talking, loss of taste and breathing problems if swelling is severe.

By this time the German supreme command had become more cheerful, even optimistic, as it saw that the piercing of the Hindenburg Line had not been followed by an actual Allied breakthrough.