How to Use puncture in a Sentence

puncture

1 of 2 noun

• Deputies found the man in the backyard with a puncture wound to his right leg.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
• The catheter is then taken out, and the puncture heals on its own.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
• The attack had left 10 puncture wounds in his leg from the shark's teeth.
  — NBC News, 28 June 2021
• The camera zooms in on the rubber plug with a small puncture mark.
  — Jillian Kay Melchior, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
• The raccoon left puncture wounds in the other dog’s leg.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2023
• One of the shifters has been knocked askew, and my leg has two bleeding puncture marks.
  — Jason H. Harper, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2021
• My vet treated Chloe’s puncture wounds, two on the neck, one on her side.
  — Susanne Craig, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
• On the way back to her car, Marciano cried as blood poured from a puncture wound in the middle of her palm.
  — Victoria Villanueva-Marquez, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
• That’s when the bear bit her in her right hand and left puncture wounds in her wrist, the department said.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2 July 2023
• The man had also stabbed himself in the head and suffered puncture wounds.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2023
• The bear inflicted a puncture wound to the boy’s thigh, bite marks on a foot and ankle and claw marks on his back.
  — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
• The woman was tossed 10 feet in the air and suffered a puncture wound and other injuries.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 29 June 2022
• The dog had fractures to her skull, a puncture and swelling around her left eye, Wilson wrote.
  — Fox News, 9 June 2022
• This process started with surgery to treat the puncture wounds left behind by the dog attack.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 8 Apr. 2022
• Police said the man had suffered at least one puncture wound.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• The bone slab bears 28 puncture marks, with one set of ten pecks spaced regularly in a line.
  — Ian Gilligan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
• But others, like 12-year-old Rowan Dardick, didn’t seem phased by the puncture.
  — Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 19 May 2021
• Signs include a pair of puncture marks, redness, swelling, or severe pain around the bite.
  — Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• The man, it was later found, also had stab wounds to his chest and left hand, and a puncture to his upper groin area.
  — cleveland, 25 Feb. 2021
• Having seen puncture marks in her arm, Jones and her husband thought the snake had bitten her.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• Objects get kicked up by other vehicles (and your own) and land in just the right way to be run over and cause the puncture.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
• The caulk gun comes with features such as an extra-long puncture rod and hook for storage.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Mar. 2024
• His swollen foot, with the puncture wound oozing, looked like a rotting eggplant.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• In the morning, the agent notices two strange puncture wounds on his neck, but chalks it up to some nasty mosquitoes.
  — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 1 Mar. 2022
• His swollen foot, oozing from the puncture wound, looked like a rotting eggplant.
  — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• Durheim examined the carcass and found a puncture wound between the neck and shoulder.
  — Garrett Andrews, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2021
• She was treated for puncture wounds on her wrist, the wildlife department said.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
• The tough rubber resists puncture, and puncture is about the only thing that could make these waders leak.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Pick a flat, level surface in your yard and make sure there’s no debris that could cause punctures.
  — Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
• The result is a puncture proof inflated tire that does not need the addition of any liquid sealant.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2023

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puncture

2 of 2 verb

• I could never puncture my own skin with a hypodermic needle.
• Take the sharp, corner edge of the knife closest to the handle and puncture the top of the can.
  — USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• Then puncture the wrap so gnats can fly in and get trapped.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
• Her eardrum hadn’t been punctured by the spider climbing around, the study notes.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• Using a sharp knife, puncture the pork (not the skin) at least a dozen times, piercing the meat on all sides.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• The Vikings needed just two plays to puncture the Ravens’ festive mood.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• Fold the foil up around the ribs and seal the packets snugly, being careful not to puncture the foil with the rib bones.
  — Fox News, 6 June 2022
• Use a sharp tool such as a metal skewer or a knife to puncture skin and fat with small holes.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2021
• The challenge is to not puncture the gravity of the story with the humor.
  — Akiva Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• But, on the flip side, the tire will be less likely to be punctured by rocks or other debris.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2023
• The tower’s floor space is a lot larger than the needle-thin towers that puncture cityscapes the world over.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2023
• In the clip, a fan at the Mets-Yankees game can be seen in his seat puncturing a hot dog with a real straw.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
• If the viewers are torn, scratched or punctured, discard them.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• If the viewers are torn, scratched or punctured, discard them.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• Bera said the bite didn’t appear to puncture through his sock and into his skin.
  — Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• As the name suggests, top-cut can openers puncture the lid from above, just inside the rim.
  — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
• The spider is venomous, however, most of the time the fangs aren’t big enough to puncture human skin.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Mar. 2022
• The backhoe’s arm punctured Collins’ windshield, killing him.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
• About 100 million of them are the size of a grain of salt, which is large enough to puncture a hole in astronaut spacesuits.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2022
• The fall caused the straw to go through Charlie's tongue and into his throat, and puncture his right carotid artery, which provides blood and oxygen to the brain.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2022
• Things that puncture not just plastic bags but human skin and flesh.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• Tompkins asked the workers to puncture the drums to increase airflow during the burning, and to leave the bung holes atop the drums open.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2022
• The fangs still puncture him, and the digestive process begins; by the time their second date is through, the female has finished the job.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
• The clack of assault rifles being fired punctured the air.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Their thorns can puncture vehicles tires and their blooms stink, Long said.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
• The nine that puncture the top of each fender relieve pressure in the wheel wells that might otherwise lift the front end.
  — Ben Oliver, Car and Driver, 30 Sep. 2021
• Using a fork or toothpick, puncture the lemons all over.
  — Ali Slagle, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The 19-year-old from Palm Springs winds through love and loss, singing ultra-melancholic songs with a glimmer of hope puncturing through.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2023
• One bird bit down hard on her finger, puncturing the skin.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• Agents pursued the vehicle and deployed a spike strip on the road in an effort to puncture the tires and stop the vehicle.
  — Andrea Lopez-Villafaña, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024