Sentence examples for were pierced with from inspiring English sources
"Some were pierced with a can opener, others flayed, their labels torn or crushed".
Later such skins were pierced with awls and sewn together with cordage to give a closer fit.
Other breechloaders employed metal cartridges that were pierced with holes or made with ends of flammable paper, so that the powder could be ignited by a percussion cap.
On closer inspection, I saw they were pierced with small holes, through which a stream of tiny bees came and went.
In form these early medieval windows varied considerably: the actual window openings were at first filled with thin sheets of marble, alabaster, gypsum, or even wooden boards, which were pierced with holes, coloured glass being inserted into these holes.
Pearls, like some coloured stones, in ancient Classical times were pierced with a drill, the hole going half or all the way through according to whether the pearls were to be strung on a necklace or fastened onto a jewel.
Several sculptures evoke torture; heads are pierced with many spikes.
The din was pierced with cheers and claps.
The fortress-like walls are pierced with palm-wood beams.
Other hunks of cement are pierced with holes, like Henry Moore stand-ins for loudspeakers.
Cricket's heart has been pierced with pain but it will never stop beating.
