pierce

Depending on the species, chelicerae can function as pincers or fangs that grip, pierce, or stab prey.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

I’m choosing to pierce through all the ugly noise that surrounds the tournament and remember what it’s like watching your first World Cup as a child.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

Some courts may be less willing to extend trust protections in such cases, though courts do not routinely pierce spendthrift protections simply because the underlying conduct of a beneficiary was wrongful.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026

The noise is deafening: Horns blare, whistles pierce the piercing cold.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026

Once he’d found a pointed stone, he managed to pierce one, making a terrible mess, and felt the welcome squirt of cool coconut water on his face.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

The sound of anti-aircraft guns pierces the sky as conversations at the market revolve around rising prices and the coming winter.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Spitz’s deep reporting often pierces the mythology surrounding the band.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

As we talk, on occasion the screeching call of a toucan pierces the quiet, and miles above, the same giant black birds hover menacingly in groups, surveying everything below.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026

Antonio Obá’s painting of a monk-like horseman at Mendes Wood DM, his copper-hued cloak glimmering under a turquoise sky while his gaze pierces the viewer, is a small master class in paint-handling and color theory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

A beep from my pod’s control panel pierces my ears.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Is he the man beneath the word “Harold,” holding the arrow that pierced his eye, or the axeman who flops lifelessly backward after a sword stroke?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The judges said: "A Jamaican epic from one of the most impactful Caribbean novelists today; readers will love the shifting register of the dialogue and poetic phrasings, often pierced through with sharp, double-edged humour."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Steve Irwin died on 4 September 2006, aged 44, after a stingray fatally pierced his chest while he was underwater filming a documentary at the Great Barrier Reef.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Maybe the only way to justify a magnetic attraction to wanting my bags, shoes and belts to be studded, spiky, pierced and heavy is by connecting the dots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

“It’s a tradition for Pakistani girls to have their ears pierced when they’re little. Rabia and I had ours done together, when we were babies. Noses come much later, usually when girls get married.”

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Ear-piercing chain Rowan is introducing a new store format featuring private piercing suites and higher-end materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

That day in January, Lee Arguello was on her couch in the living room, just steps away from the front door, when she heard Vela Gonzalez’s piercing scream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

In a four-star review, external, the Times noted how Heaton's "casually funny" and "deceptively piercing" latest album "again confirms his gift for dissecting human weakness with an unsentimental but humane eye".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

But just then, a piercing pink light appears outside, and a low, opaque mist begins to creep through the seams of your tent.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

As she hesitated, the dragon turned his head toward her, his impenetrable black eyes piercing her.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin