1. piercing - Noun
2. piercing - Adjective
3. piercing - Verb
5. piercing - Adjective Satellite
of Pierce
Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCreativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. Bill Moyers
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. Yehudi Menuhin
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? Jules Verne
The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that. Margaret Atwood
I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift. Max Cannon
When the dripping continues it succeeds in piercing the hardest stone. Sicilian Proverb