pierce
Example Sentences
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Malinin was among those in the crowd who gave Liu - the alt girl with her iconic halo hair and lip piercing - a standing ovation as she wrote herself into Olympic folklore.
From BBC
With blonde horizontal stripes dyed into her black hair and a piercing in her upper lip, the 20-year-old Liu is putting an alternative spin on figure skating.
From Los Angeles Times
Some sleuths have resorted to studying body language as they try to pierce the veil of secrecy.
In “Borgen,” he portrayed a Greenlandic minister with piercing blue eyes who wants to use the income from a fictional new oil find to accelerate the island’s quest for independence.
And Sheba was huge, her nose long and pointed, her hair greasy gray tails swinging like thick ropes around her grinning face, her eyes red and piercing.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
