piercing

Example Sentences

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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

Undo the tight, slicked back bun and bring in halo dyed hair, dark eyeliner and the piercing she did herself on the inside of her upper lip.

From Los Angeles Times

"I think as British people we're very good at piercing the balloon of our own success and undercutting it and devaluing ourselves," he tells BBC News.

From BBC