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Example sentences for: piercing

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Almost two generations of 20 th -century women lived with unpierced or healed earlobes, until ear piercing became almost universal for both men and women in the 1960s, just as if it had always been there.
Dissection began with the removal of the black serosal cutical by sticking the eggs to a microscope slide with double-sided sticky tape, covering with PBS, piercing the serosal cuticle and pushing out the embryo and yolk with a hypodermic needle.
a new avant-garde fashion, contemporaneous with the start of body piercing.
Tattooing and piercing are among the most ancient of such practices; piercing, as recently revived, is among the most violent.
But a story as piercing as this goes to the heart of the matter, for it embodies the terrible event in such a way that it steals up on us and will haunt us in our sleep.