pierced

One of the bullets brushed his spine and another pierced his bladder, leaving him with a permanent catheter.

"He died before the ambulance arrived. I was told he was very unlucky, because a piece of shrapnel pierced his heart," she says, breaking down.

I got my ear pierced there drunkenly once upon a time.

The unnamed group’s symbol — described in the memo and confirmed to The Times by five sources in the department — is a skull with blood-red eyes, pierced by a jagged lightning bolt.

Her question apparently pierced years of rationalisation and denial.