Adjective
She looked at me with piercing eyes, and I was suddenly frightened that she knew what I had done.
I tried to avoid his piercing stare.
She felt a piercing sadness when she heard the news. Noun
There's a small shop in town where they do tattooing and body piercing.
She got another ear piercing.
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Adjective
My piercing call seemed absorbed by the heavy moisture, trapping even the echo I’d been accustomed to hearing.—Jim Tschetter, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2025 This is a piercing and perceptive psychological thriller.—Connie Ogle, Boston Herald, 10 July 2025
Noun
Here, the poetic and essential quality of her prose is at its purest, and at its most piercing, as Romano captures the essence of her life with her husband of five decades, Innocenzo Monti.—Brian Robert Moore
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025 Also known as microdermal piercings or single-point piercings, dermal piercings lie flat against the skin and don't have a separate entry and exit point, per Byrdie.—Catherine Santino, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for piercing
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