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Example sentences for: puncture

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

Although authorities have no suspects, they describe the president's injuries as 'small puncture wounds in the head and chest, roughly the diameter of a Size 9 Manolo Blahnik heel.
For assay of plasma transaminase (ALT), hEndostatin, and mhATF-BPTI, rats were anaesthetised with isoflurane and bled by tail vein puncture and the blood was collected in EDTA tubes.
Blood was obtained by cardiac puncture at sacrifice and assayed within 3 hours of collection.
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.
It's having to face a Pat Buchanan who will puncture their postures and snare their sound bites.