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Example sentences for: puncture

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All catheters were inserted via new percutaneous puncture in intensive care units by experienced anaesthetists under strict aseptic techniques.
He especially objected to an account of a dinner party at his house, at which his wife Ilena (according to Reich) exclaims in horror, and the whole table falls silent, when Reich "puncture[s] the evening's high-society ambiance" by mistaking mint jelly for sauce.
You puncture the sauce pouch, toss the dinner in, pull it out, peel back parts of the film cover, toss the sauce pouch in, fire up the oven again, take it out again, pour on the sauce ...
Serum samples were separated from whole blood, which was collected by intracardiac puncture at baseline and at 3, 6, and 16 weeks post-treatment.
Perhaps I am missing something, but, in the event, it is difficult to understand how the expression take (someone) down a peg , which means demean (someone); reduce (someone) in estimation, esp. his own; puncture the self-confidence or arrogance of (someone), unless it has changed somewhat over the years, could be connected with peg tankards.