The word 'punctured' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something which has a small hole or cut in it from a sharp object, such as when you puncture a balloon or a tire. For example, "The balloon was punctured when the pin accidentally punctured down through it."
In narcissism, an inflated grandiosity is repeatedly punctured by an unbending reality.
This bottom-up approach punctured the idea that the livelihoods of refugee farmers are solely dependent on crops as they explained that they actually spread the risk by ensuring other household members do different kinds of work.
He'd been cast as a Bedouin deaf mute to my arrogant British army captain, and his one spoken line was to make a noise like a football being punctured when asked his name, to which I had to respond: "My God, you're a deaf mute!" The deaf mute was, the actor assured me beforehand, a marvellous cameo.
My Milanese moment was swiftly punctured.
Mr Krauze remembers that the optimism when the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into force in 1994 was quickly punctured by the Zapatista uprising in Mexico's south on New Year's Day.
A greater proportion of the 75,000 men fighting at Murfreesboro was killed or wounded than in any other battle of the civil war, bodies punctured and broken by artillery fire.
Modern zoology, alas, has punctured many of these myths.
The riots punctured the illusion that local Russians were integrating smoothly.
Satellite television and the Internet have punctured old state information monopolies.
But the belief that its financial system can handle huge saving flows indefinitely has been punctured.
In Bab al-Aziziya, the colonel's fortified compound, buildings have been wrecked and bunkers punctured by NATO bombs.
