Piercing used in a sentence

Piercing in a sentence as an adjective

The thought of piercing something with a 10mm screw in a hole meant for a 6mm screw was scary.

I like to consider it a British penchant for piercing the corporate veil and de-reifying the collective.

A triangle wave sounds very close to a sine wave - a piercing pure tone - while being computationally inexpensive.

In much of America, use and possession of firearms is a strong cultural marker, like ear piercing or playing football or driving cars.

And he fled from the public eye into self-imposed exile when people started piercing his intentional veil of anonymity.

Even when he's snoozing while I've got him, I am virtually incapable of Zone when my brain knows that at any minute, a piercing scream that I must drop everything to service may emerge.

Someone able to rapidly bolt together a product that they subsequently ensconce with piercing marketing or another form of customer lock-in is a gold mine.

That's what "piercing the corporate veil" is about: when the owners of a company abuse the liability shield badly enough that they should be personally liable.

There are also reasons they stopped using it in the first place[1]:Some problems with this method were that the receiver could be triggered accidentally by naturally occurring noises, and some people could hear the piercing ultrasonic signals.

Imagine if the picture showed Snowden with two bodyguards, Secret Service types with sunglasses, or hackers with green-hair and piercing, or a stereotypical Russian and a Chinese next to him, what image in the popular psyche is more favorable to win him sympathy and show him in a positive light?Perhaps it was unintentional and Im reading too much into it, but still its better than being shown alone.