Sentence examples for piercing of a from inspiring English sources

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

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.

But from somewhere beyond the shock of weeds it comes: the piercing call of a whistle.

The shriek rang out across the water, like the piercing wail of a frightened child: 'Aaah!

An approaching whump of rotor blades, then the piercing plummet of a giant bomb as it shreds the sky above.

Believe me, there's nothing more annoying than being awakened to the piercing call of a mallard duck.

On the other hand, there is the piercing empathy of a poem titled simply "Squatter's Children".

At the same time, its deft, fluid vocal writing conveyed a piercing story, of a mother who dies rescuing her boy from drowning.

One of the pictures is a glamorous portrait of her husband with electric hair and the piercing eyes of a blue-eyed devil.

Others come as a shock: the kettledrums that sound like cannon fire; the piercing insistence of a piccolo that seems to have been requisitioned from Napoleon's army.