Example sentences for: pierced

How can you use “pierced” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • People come for watersports and to marvel at the cliffs pierced (percé) by the sea.

  • We still encounter similar impossibilities with amusing regularity in our adult lives, along with their exact opposites--signs which more than state the obvious, such as Ears pierced while you wait.

  • First, he gets the Immaculate Conception wrong, which refers to the conception not of Jesus but of his mother, Mary--it's the Virgin Mary's mother, St. Anne, whose hymen is invisibly pierced by the Holy Ghost.

  • He pierced the earth, and out flowed amerta, the water of immortality.

  • The pierced generation may simply be acknowledging the deadliness of the times we live in, suggestive as they are of earlier epochs in human history.


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