Sentence examples for were pierced from inspiring English sources

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were pierced

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To puncture; to break through

  • The diver pierced the surface of the water with scarcely a splash.

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Some signs were pierced by bullet holes.

Although her clothes were pierced, no bullet struck her, and she regained the fort safely.

His cheeks and lower lip were pierced and ornamented with a "faire green stone".

"Some were pierced with a can opener, others flayed, their labels torn or crushed".

His survey found that 42percentt of the men surveyed were pierced, as were 60percentt of the women.

Later such skins were pierced with awls and sewn together with cordage to give a closer fit.

"It was a tremendous, I felt the ground shaking under my feet," said Munthir Falah, a secondhand clothes vendor whose chest and right leg were pierced by shrapnel.

The steel front doors were pierced repeatedly by high-velocity Israeli bullets, and residents said their children had been screaming during the exchange.

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His views on words were piercing.

Soon sprouts were piercing through all points of his body.

His blue eyes were piercing beneath a white sun visor.

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