"piercing pain" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an idiomatic expression used to describe a sharp, intense pain penetrating the body. For example: The patient felt a piercing pain in her shoulder when moving her arm.
"Fast" pain, which is characterized by sharp, piercing pain, and results in a quick withdrawal reflex.
He tried to ignore the piercing pain as if he were approaching the gun lap of an Olympic final.
It is difficult to believe your lover is alive under the same sky, and the more clearly you can see their room, their bed, the more you feel the piercing pain of separation.
This utter, piercing pain.
Then put back together, but in such a way that any thoughts brought sharp, piercing pain.
"We're opposed to the exploitation and abuse of sentient animals that are used in the rodeo and subjected to a tremendous amount of piercing pain, stress, injury, and death all for the sake of entertainment," Virginillo told me.
They were piercing pains high up in your abdomen which occur when the bile ducts in your gall bladder are so crystalised and scarred from ketamine that you get horrendous cramps.
Mr Arafat, 75, was taken abruptly ill, with piercing pains in his lower body, in Ramallah in Palestine in November 2004.
The 42-year-old underwent a delicate, five-hour surgery in Amritsar, Punjab, on Friday after complaining of piercing stomach pain, CNN reported.
By October, however, the 6-foot-4-inch Suggs began to suffer piercing stomach pains, rapid weight loss and a stiffening in his throwing hand.
Cricket's heart has been pierced with pain but it will never stop beating.
