pierce

Example Sentences

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Some sleuths have resorted to studying body language as they try to pierce the veil of secrecy.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

She had deep brown skin and a diamond piercing on her nose.

From Literature

“When he got out of the hospital, he got his ear pierced.”

From Literature