PIERCE in a Sentence
Learn PIERCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
168 example sentences for PIERCE, such as:
1. Did the needle pierce her flesh?
2. A piercing scream split the air.
3. They pierced through the thick forest.
4. He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.
5. She looked at me with piercing blue eyes.
2. A piercing scream split the air.
3. They pierced through the thick forest.
4. He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.
5. She looked at me with piercing blue eyes.
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Meanings and Examples of PIERCE
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pierce
v. cut or make a way through
v. sound sharply or shrilly
Classic Sentence: (150 in 11 pages)
1 A terrible sorrow had fallen upon him when he had been happy and he had let his soul fill itself with blackness and had refused obstinately to allow any rift of light to pierce through.
2 He waited silently, striving to pierce through the darkness.
3 He began by moving his bed, and looked around for anything with which he could pierce the wall, penetrate the moist cement, and displace a stone.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
4 We must pierce through the corridor by forming a side opening about the middle, as it were the top part of a cross.
5 My eyes pierce the inmost recesses of the earth, and are dazzled at the sight of so much riches.
6 As he approached it, Noirtier's gaze followed him, and his eyes appeared of such a fiery brightness that Villefort felt them pierce to the depths of his heart.
7 He gazed about him on every side, but the darkness was too dense for the eye to pierce.
8 But what were her feelings when Pavel Petrovitch, Pavel Petrovitch himself, put her hand to his lips and seemed to pierce into it without kissing it, and only heaving convulsive sighs from time to time.
9 On seeing this, Pierre moved forward with his breast toward the swords, meaning them to pierce it.
10 It seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier.
11 If you wish to go out, you will be obliged to pierce your wall.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
12 Hence is it they fear and desire, sorrow and rejoice; nor can they pierce the air while barred in the blind darkness of their prison-house.
13 Then Numitor, seizing his dead brother's javelin, aims at Aeneas, but might not fairly pierce him, and grazed tall Achates on the thigh.
14 No wind, however squally, could break through the cover they afforded, nor could the sun's rays pierce them, nor the rain get through them, so closely did they grow into one another.
15 She weeps continually, and accuses herself unjustly as the cause of his death; her words pierce my heart.
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 It grasps its victim in its forelegs and pierce it with its rostrum.
2 A word is no arrow, but it can pierce the heart.
3 The worker tried to pierce a hole in a piece of leather.
4 Did the needle pierce her flesh?
5 Holmes is portrayed as a detective genius, a man whose mind can pierce through murk and uncertainty to the truth, while Dr. Watson, smart as he might be, is mostly a bumbler when it comes to solving mysteries.
6 He pierced the rubber ball with a needle.
7 The nurse pierced the skin of the boy with a lancet.
8 They pierced through the thick forest.
9 He pierced another hole in his belt with his knife.
10 One bullet pierced the left side of his chest.
11 Yet that brief derisive stare pierced her to her soul.
12 A piercing scream split the air.
13 There was mockery now in those piercing blue eyes.
14 She looked at me with piercing blue eyes.
15 He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.