perforate

Example Sentences

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One entered his torso and flew upward, fragmenting and perforating his chest muscle, which bruised his lungs and created a cluster of three large exit wounds.

From Washington Post

The state has also been a major oil and gas producer for more than a century, and authorities are well aware some 35,000 old, inactive oil and gas wells perforate the landscape.

From Seattle Times

In peated whiskies, malt grain is spread out over a perforated floor and underneath peat is burned, producing wafts of flavoursome smoke.

From BBC

He observes that librarians seem to hate books, eager as they are to perforate and stamp them.

From New York Times

The Toronto architect Stephen Teeple has compared his perforated black building design to a tuning fork.

From New York Times