piercingly

Example Sentences

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There, he earned a reputation as a piercingly thorough interviewer of victims and witnesses—but also an uncommonly gentle and sympathetic one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Her works achieve the difficult feat of synthesizing a coma-inducing dullness with piercingly shrill extended diatribes to create reverse masterpieces worthy of the most risible North Korean propaganda.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2024

Nights, however, continue to be freezing, and have become piercingly cold amid the dry weather.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2024

That set a template for Roan now — a little tawdry, self-aware, over the top, yet piercingly vulnerable.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023

Kali bent forward eagerly, quivering in her excitement, and at that moment as ill luck would have it the child woke, opened his weak, pinkish eyes, yawned and began to yell piercingly.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya