(v. t.) To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.
(v. t.) To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship.
(v. t.) Fig.: To penetrate; to affect deeply; as, to pierce a mystery.
(v. i.) To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
(2) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(3) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
(4) After properly fixing the vas deferens with a ring clamp, the surgeon pierces the scrotal skin, vas sheath, and vas deferens in the midline with a curved dissecting clamp held at a 45 degree angle from horizontal.
(5) The dorsal interosseous muscles gave off tendons which pierced the transverse laminae or passed deep to the transverse laminae, and attached to the bases of the proximal phalanges.
(6) Four patients received a subclavian intraaortic balloon pump, two were supported with a Novacor left ventricular assist system, three patients received Pierce-Donachy ventricular assist devices, and one patient received a Jarvik 7 total artificial heart.
(7) Lisbeth Salander is a violent and emotionally uncommunicative tattooed and much-pierced goth who grew up in care, and has had serious mental health issues.
(8) Ear-piercing techniques include needles, safety pins, sharpened studs, and self-piercing kits.
(9) The price G4S is paying amounts to 8.5 times of top-line earnings - "by no means cheap," said Seymour Pierce analyst Kevin Lapwood.
(10) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
(11) This paper draws attention to tool marks in the area of pierced rib cartilage and considers the possibilities of their analysis.
(12) Fourteen patients were supported with a Pierce-Donachy ventricular assist device (left ventricular assist in seven, right ventricular assist in three, both in four); nine were supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, two with a Medtronic centrifugal left ventricular assist pump, one with biventricular Biomedicus pumps, and one with a Novacor left ventricular assist system.
(13) A scanning electron microscope (SEM) study of the mouthparts of Psoroptes cuniculi from rabbits and P. ovis from sheep established that they are identical in morphology and are adapted for surface feeding rather than piercing the epidermis.
(14) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
(15) We stress the need for strict enforcement of correct sterilization procedures whenever needles are used to pierce skin.
(16) By stepping back from some of the more radical solutions suggested before the election – such as the complete separation of high street banks from "casino" investment banks proposed by business secretary Vince Cable – the commission left the banks "secretly quite pleased", according to Bruce Packard, banks analyst at Seymour Pierce.
(17) In 2013, actor Pierce Brosnan’s daughter, Charlotte, died from ovarian cancer.
(18) The piercing intelligence-wise in terms of humans has been very difficult all along."
(19) The passage through Congress of legislation such as the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act , which reduced the racially significant disparity between punishments for crack and powder cocaine, and the Death in Custody Act , which introduces a federal record of deaths in police custody, have shown that incarceration – and perhaps incarceration alone – is able to pierce through the partisan gridlock of Washington.
(20) Benteke and the tireless Andreas Weimann take the plaudits for their four passes that pierced the Liverpool defence and saw the Austrian forward sweep home Benteke's exquisite back-heel.
Skewer
Definition:
(n.) A pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting.
(v. t.) To fasten with skewers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because he had said so many damning things out in the open, it hardly seemed necessary to skewer his personal life.
(2) The secondary devices include cerclage, hemicerclage, or interfragmentary wires, skewer-pins, screws, and external skeletal fixators.
(3) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(4) The size and appearance of the wound corresponded to those of the horizontal section of a skewer used by the assailant.
(5) Enjoy tapas – grilled artichoke, skewers of chicken, grilled prawns, cheese or salty hot pork on warm bread – while standing at the marble bar, or raciones at a table round the back.
(6) Spoon into the prepared tin, smooth the top and bake for 25 minutes (or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean).
(7) Such a fatal case due to a single stabbing of the medullar oblongata by the chance gliding of a skewer through the small, narrow atlantoaxial interspace is considered to be exceptional.
(8) During one technical challenge, I saw one baker use, at the very least, six glass bowls, a saucepan, a sieve, a spatula, a silicon sheet, spoons, a pastry brush, a skewer, a cake tin, palette knives, piping bags, a measuring jug, scissors, a rolling pin, spoons and a cooling rack.
(9) The sharp-witted late-night TV star, who regularly skewers the foibles of other celebrities, found himself on the end of the same treatment after being at the centre of a bizarre blackmail plot over the sexual affairs he had with younger female staff members.
(10) In the 1980s, the debt timebomb was due to Opec's petrodollars being recycled through western banks to poor people in the developing world, who were skewered when inflation and interest rates took off.
(11) Stewart plays a fake anchor, tirelessly skewering the absurdities of US politics while Oliver plays his fake Senior British Correspondent, a walking compendium of British cliches.
(12) The list of films from the last couple years is long and includes The International , where the enemy is a bank, to comedies such as The Other Guys and Despicable Me where offhand jokes skewer banks and bankers even in children's films.
(13) Langham said Armando Iannucci, who created The Thick of It, the painfully black, expletive-heavy, government-skewering comedy, describes prime minister Hugh Abbot - the character played by Langham - as someone who is in the process of selling his soul to the devil, but the transaction is not yet quite complete.
(14) That was the message from the Institute for Fiscal Studies as it skewered George Osborne over the spending plans laid out in the autumn statement.
(15) The first came with the founding of Gawker in 2002 as a gossip blog that skewered celebrities and New York media figures.
(16) Check with a skewer: if it comes out clean, it's done.
(17) This sets up the importance of both parents from the start, and skewers the discrimination endemic in many societies, including the UK, where women of child-bearing age are less likely to get jobs for fear they might at some point need maternity leave.
(18) To emphasise the point, he skewers a bit of chicken on his plate and holds it up with a grin.
(19) Cecil the lion's killer joins long list of big game hunters skewered on social media Read more Kathleen Garrigan, spokeswoman for the conservation group African Wildlife Foundation, said on Tuesday that while listing the African lion as threatened under the act would be most successful in stopping the import of hunting trophies, private companies such as airlines could help in curbing the transport of the trophies.
(20) But in a culture that still tells women that the most important job title they’ll ever hold is “mother” – and with Republicans at the ready to skewer anyone who hints at anything but pure reverence for women who stay at home – Clinton’s message is actually quite subversive.