How to Use pierced in a Sentence

pierced

adjective

• The pierced and tattooed bouncer who opens it gives me a once-over.
  — Marjorie Kehe, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2017
• When shots ring out, the pierced air causes ripples that spread well beyond the trauma of the wounded.
  — Tyrone Beason, The Seattle Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• With a pierced abdomen and a fist-sized hole in his thigh, Conroy was carried to hospital under a hail of mortar fire.
  — Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2018
• The colored, pierced shells themselves are probably not much older than that.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
• But babies with pierced ears has been a hot topic for years, one that bubbles up every time a celebrity is involved.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 12 July 2018
• Several bullets pierced cars parked in front of the hospital on Ogden.
  — Elyssa Cherney, chicagotribune.com, 6 May 2018
• While many people were excited to see Stormi and her pierced ears, others were concerned over Stormi's young age.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 12 July 2018
• Far-right Northern League leader Matteo Salvini has a pierced ear and a genial, everyman style.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• One boy suffered a pierced liver after being thrust with one of the 8-to-10-inch knives, narrowly missing his heart and aorta, doctors said.
  — New York Daily News, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• The old man beside me with heavily pierced ears and a pointed stick protruding below his lower lip offered me his knife.
  — Andrew McCarthy, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• Michael Beanes, a 29-year-old wearing a cowboy hat and faded Iron Maiden T-shirt and sporting a pierced lip, said drinking in there made him feel a bit like being an animal at the zoo.
  — David Montero, latimes.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Like Barragán’s personal Instagram @ytinifninfinity, which often shows pierced food things and slices of men’s body parts, his clothes also have an erotic tinge.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2018
• At the start of Tuesday's episode, viewers learned that Abby was in serious condition, having suffered a pierced artery after being shot in the chest.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 9 May 2018
• From this summer's obsession with pierced braids to the latest constellation craze, ear and body piercings have never been cooler.
  — Sue Williamson, Teen Vogue, 9 Aug. 2018
• Plus, Magdalena didn't want some American student with a pierced tongue and tattoos traipsing around, exposing Camila to God knows what.
  — Stephanie Green, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
• At first, the new customers — as a group, considerably more tattooed and pierced than Pope’s typical clientele — were buying relatively small glass distillation units.
  — Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2018

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