Example sentences for: pierced

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

  • Plaça de Sant Josep Oriol adjoins Plaça del Pi, on which sits Santa María del Pi, a handsome church with a tall octagonal bell tower and a harmonious façade pierced by a large 15th-century rose window.

  • 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.

  • It is so heavily scored that it looks nearly sculptural, and it is covered with dots that look like smallpox--an essay in the catalogue cites Freud, by way of Gilles Deleuze, on the "schizophrenic aptitude for perceiving the surface and skin as if it were pierced with an infinite number of little holes."

  • Maybe he should have it pierced with silver or something.

  • 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.


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