puncture

Example Sentences

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Puncture the word “pretentious” and out scuttles a bestiary of class anxieties; fears about getting above your station, and policing those suspected of trying to migrate from their social background.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2016

The meeting, called by a local activist group called Puncture the Silence, was an effort to press beyond the squabbles and rivalries that have plagued the protest groups that emerged after the Rice shooting.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2015

You wonder if a documentary might have been more powerful than this film; but then again, "Puncture" leaves its audience thinking, and that's more than a lot of movies can do.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2011

A well-made drama about a pair of young attorneys and a potentially explosive case, "Puncture" has the unusual problem of being almost too intriguing; its based-on-true-events story seems to cry out for documentary treatment.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2011

"Puncture," suggested Napier, all his energies concentrated for the moment on suppressing every outward sign of concern about the fate of the letter.

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth