Example sentences for: pierced

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

  • Hundreds of feet below the house is Sa Foradada (literally, “rock with a hole in it”), a rocky promontory jutting into the sea, pierced by a remarkable 18-m- (60-ft-) wide natural window.

  • (The character for middle , a rectangular figure bisected by a vertical line, represents a square target pierced by an arrow.)

  • Much later, during the progressive first quarter of this century, pierced ears for women became utterly unfashionable, a sign of Victorian bondage as abhorrent as whalebone corsets and the double marital bed.

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

  • 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.


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