puncture
Example Sentences
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Research published in Advanced Science found that this stretching method is more effective than earlier designs that attempted to puncture viruses.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
Still, it does puncture the social media myth that this was a rebel’s wild stunt.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Empirical facts have the power to puncture partisan echo chambers and other closed-off belief systems.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
The 27-year-old Belarusian thrives on Australian hard courts, using the quicker surface to puncture holes through even the most stoic of defensive players.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
He could also see the half-healed puncture marks to his forearm.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing puncture
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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Mississippi Trial, 1955
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