How to Use piercing in a Sentence

piercing

1 of 2 adjective

• I tried to avoid his piercing stare.
• She felt a piercing sadness when she heard the news.
• She looked at me with piercing eyes, and I was suddenly frightened that she knew what I had done.
• The plucky lead melody, bright and piercing, lingers in the air like a fond memory.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 8 July 2022
• The piercing blue eyes of huskies — those beloved, wolf-like canines — stand out among most dog breeds.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2018
• There are no words to describe the piercing loss Winchester felt on the worst day of his life.
  — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 22 Sep. 2017
• Cody had a piercing bark and Lacey just had a normal but vicious bark that day.
  — Robert Miller, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2021
• These devices produce a piercing sound loud enough to wake you, your neighbors and the front desk, too.
  — Washington Post, 20 May 2021
• More muscles and more lustrous hair and more piercing eyes.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 19 June 2017
• To best take care of your belly button ring post-piercing, make sure to clean it every day.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 3 Feb. 2023
• The piercing 30-second air horn blast is a wakeup call from the soft lapping waters.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• These children live in a place where the piercing whine of warplanes, the tremors of airstrikes and the humming buzz of armed drones are familiar sounds, even in times of cease-fire.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 July 2021
• The piercing screams and shaky floorboards ushered Bad Bunny’s launch.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 1 Oct. 2022
• Buarque’s eyes are more piercing, his chin slightly more pinched.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• On a recent Saturday, a group of parents in aprons worked in the school’s small kitchen amid a piercing smell of garlic and aged cabbage.
  — Julia Mio Inuma, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• Every time the hapless Blount exited his front door, a piercing alarm would wail.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2021
• But an even more piercing moment came during a much quieter song.
  — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2022
• On the wall hung a somber portrait of Carter, his small, piercing, black eyes gazing irritably down.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
• With the unpredictability of the past two years, there's truly no knowing what will happen in the piercing world.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 6 Dec. 2021
• The most piercing lyricism is reserved for Wozzeck’s common-law wife, Marie, who falls victim to his madness.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• In the distance, three visiting hikers stopped dead in their tracks at the piercing sound and its echo bouncing off the walls of the ravine that separated them.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• But every once in a while, a piercing alarm will erupt from the silence to alert gamers that a graphics card has been listed for sale somewhere on the internet.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 27 July 2021
• The beauty of the quilts occasionally belie the piercing nature of some of the subject matter.
  — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• After all, only those on the highest level, able to navigate the most piercing pain, are singled out by God.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Mar. 2022
• The long exposure to the elements hid one of the bust’s most striking aspects, eyes of silver that shoot a piercing gaze—now vivid again after a restoration.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• But picking up the pieces offers no such piercing clarity.
  — Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
• Most disheartening of all, facts, the hard currency of truth-telling, are being debased in Trump’s post-fact world, a move that can mute the most piercing whistle.
  — Tom Mueller, Twin Cities, 9 Oct. 2019
• This isn’t the kind of slow intuition that comes from Pisces, nor the piercing deep realization of Scorpio, nor the lofty higher truth of Sagittarius.
  — Emily Newhouse, Allure, 6 Dec. 2022
• Among the film’s most piercing scenes are a couple of doozies set in the local watering hole, where Leslie gravitates to slake her thirst and to escape the judgment of her grudging hosts.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2022
• The town, practically abandoned this afternoon, starts to drown in a piercing light.
  — Jhumpa Lahiri, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021

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piercing

2 of 2 noun

• There's a small shop in town where they do tattooing and body piercing.
• She got another ear piercing.
• The same piercing pain, but now around the eyes, or above the eyes, or more to the point, behind the eyes.
  — Eduardo Halfon, The New York Review of Books, 23 June 2021
• So what's the best way to get yourself a healthy piercing?
  — Fiona Ward, refinery29.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• The star's first attempt at a nose piercing didn’t quite turn out as planned.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• Who says piercings are reserved for your ears and face?
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2023
• And his nose-chain piercing gave him a unique look amid a rock era known for visual flair.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 3 May 2022
• With her was Samantha Strong, a young activist with a green buzz cut and piercings.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• An edge that’s folded over a bit, like a teenage ear awaiting a piercing.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 13 Feb. 2020
• The healing period depends on the area of the piercing.
  — Mara Santilli, SELF, 6 Sep. 2022
• And even physically, like the way they're described in the book, their faces are full of piercings and all this stuff.
  — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 22 Apr. 2019
• Its front end was smashed, and a woman dressed in black, wearing a G.G. Allin T-shirt, chunky boots and a trail of lip piercings, got out.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2018
• If your hole is a slit, push your earring in at the top where your original piercing was.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2021
• Her piercing wails could be heard inside the courtroom.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2018
• Tattoos and piercings are the least of the rapper’s transgressions.
  — Elizabeth De Luna, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2023
• The man, believed to be between 18 and 25 years old, had no tattoos and a piercing in his left ear, police said.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 5 May 2023
• He is described as a white male, between 30 and 40 years old, with brown hair, blue eyes, and a facial piercing.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
• Rejection means that your body sees the piercing as a foreign object and tries to force it out.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 3 Feb. 2023
• The 9-year-old oozed cool, and with her mother's white-blonde look, both stood out with their beauty and fashion sense — and of course, choice of faux piercing.
  — Chelsea Avila, Allure, 7 July 2022
• The service costs $35 to $55, depending on the type of piercing and jewelry.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 3 Mar. 2021
• Right before the bang, there was a single piercing whistle.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
• The black is a fungus, called sooty mold, present due to the feeding of these or other piercing-sucking insects.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2020
• Stepping through the gates and into the walled maze of Kotor’s Old Town is another piercing of the veil between past and present.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2024
• Sean had piercings in his nose and lower lip; Milton was missing some front teeth.
  — Abdi Nor Iftin, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
• For those concerned that North may be growing up too fast, Kim clarified that the piercing was a fake.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 July 2019
• There are now two types of ammo, soft-target and armor-piercing.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• But the piercing of the crypto bubble falls into the no-big-deal category of risks.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 20 May 2022
• The Potoskys used their copy of X’s keys to open the door to his apartment and finally learned where the ear-piercing chirps were coming from.
  — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2021
• Of course, there are always risks involved when getting a piercing.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 12 July 2022
• The difference lies in the piercing axiom that drives the series: The roots of our national foodways stem from Black hands and minds.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024