pierced

Example Sentences

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Nell Campbell, 34, says the closure was "a little bit sad" because she got her ears pierced there as a 12 or 13-year-old.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Every design-meets-fashion head’s dream is having a pierced mouth clutch molded out of a rigid wood, no?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

“Her heart was pierced because of what she would see,” Wille said, in what struck me as a moment of restrained insight.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

For the giant is motionless, and its chest is pierced with an ominous spear that rises 3,000 feet into the sky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

I thought of the voices, of their strange contradictions—of the way they made sound float on air, of how that sound was soft like a warm wind, but so sharp it pierced.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover