How to Use pierce in a Sentence

pierce

verb

• A scream pierced the silence.
• The bullet pierced his lung.
• The needle pierced her skin.
• The bullet pierced through his lung.
• The needle pierced into her skin.
• Use the tines of the fork to pierce the top of each half moon.
  — Jeanmarie Brownson, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2018
• Will give our blood, not oil)—would pierce through the still of the night.
  — Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, Quartz India, 17 Sep. 2019
• From the rear, the arrow would pierce a lung or maybe the heart.
  — Mike Combs, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2025
• Scrub well and dry, then pierce in a few places with a fork.
  — Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• The bullet didn't pierce, and Salter was shot and killed.
  — Carolyn Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2022
• Scrub the potatoes and pierce them with a knife in a few places.
  — Cathy Barrow, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• The sniper’s round hit him in his left arm and then pierced his left lung.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• With a fork, pierce the eggplant about 4 times all around.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• To top it all off, a giant spire would grow out of the dome to scrape the sky and pierce the clouds.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2019
• One piece punched through the roof of a garage, piercing the hood of the car parked inside.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 15 July 2019
• But then a mother’s screams would pierce the air and disabuse me of the thought.
  — Ahmed Abu Artema, TIME, 12 Oct. 2024
• Those words cut through the cocaine fog and pierced his heart.
  — Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 Aug. 2025
• Jones was then shot in the face by a bullet that pierced both cheeks.
  — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2025
• While slow, its sharp edges pierce deeply for its weight.
  — Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
• Rabenn had no real idea how to pierce the veil of the blockchain's anonymity.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
• Bake in the oven until the flesh is tender when pierced with a knife.
  — Karen Berner, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2018
• If the wind is volatile, then the light is vivid, piercing, and constant.
  — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2024
• The man was not shot, but bullets pierced his home, Thomas said.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2019
• Dock the bottom of the crust, piercing it a few times with the tines of a fork.
  — Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 27 Feb. 2026
• They were pinched, prodded, cut, shocked, pierced with needles, struck with canes, and burned with acid.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• For fans still curious, the best first step is a conversation with a dentist — not a mirror and a piercing needle.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
• One thing could pierce it with a drill, and that thing is an octopus.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• The limb pierced the windshield of the pickup truck.
  — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
• Robertson acknowledged that the violence had pierced that sense of calm and given him some pause about returning.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2026
• His words seemed to pierce the heavens.
  — Scott Simon, NPR, 21 Feb. 2026