How to Use body piercing in a Sentence

body piercing

noun
  • In the video, Thompson makes no mention of her recent body piercing.
    Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 30 June 2022
  • For the past 20 years, Wheeler has worked with the state health department to enhance safety standards for body piercing.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The sound matches a video on Twitter that depicts a woman who purports to have an orgasm while getting a body piercing.
    Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Members of the Colorado tattooing and body piercing community said they were shocked by the shootings and grieving the losses of beloved friends and colleagues.
    Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The gun battle was fought a few feet away from a meat market where Ellis Zahniser, 42, lay critically wounded, his body pierced with five bullets fired by White at close range.
    sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 June 2018
  • Fourteen percent of Americans had a body piercing (somewhere other than their earlobes) in 2014.
    Mary Bernard, Philly.com, 9 July 2018
  • Lior Rose, who runs Nashville Ink, said his tattoo and body piercing shop will not be able to survive without financial assistance from the government after the business was hit by the blast.
    NBC News, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Hair salons, barbershops, day spas, nail salons, tanning salons, and tattoo and body piercing parlors are all allowed to open on Friday, as are outdoor areas at bars and restaurants.
    Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 15 May 2020
  • Also on May 14 was an order that reopens hair and nail salons, day spas, barber shops, tattoo parlors, body piercing businesses and tanning facilities.
    Laura Hancock, cleveland, 29 June 2020
  • The city is going to review its procedure for allowing tattooing and body piercing establishments.
    cleveland, 10 Mar. 2020
  • There's also not enough reliable data indicating the number of body piercing complications, the report said.
    Meredith Newman, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
  • In Palm Beach County, officials issued an order allowing tattoo and body piercing parlors, as well as tanning salons, to reopen starting Monday.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Provisions of Naperville’s previous code enacted in 1999 allowed tattooing or body piercing only by a physician or osteopath or under the supervision of a physician or osteopath.
    Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 7 June 2019
  • Personal care services – beauty, barber and hair salons; cosmological services, tattoo shops, body piercing, etc.
    Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Tattoo and body piercing establishments can be located in Naperville’s general commercial districts, which are largely found along Ogden Avenue, according to city documents.
    Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 7 June 2019
  • County commissioners are scheduled Tuesday to discuss the possibility of moving to Phase 2 of reopening, a day after allowing tattoo shops, body piercing businesses and tanning salons to reopen.
    Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • During its regular, full online meeting Monday night, council unanimously approved legislation to regulate tattoo and body piercing establishments.
    cleveland, 13 Nov. 2020

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