Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
1 A piercing chill grew in the dead air; the silence was terrifying.
2 The trees break the wind that is so piercing in the clearings.
3 For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented.
4 Suddenly I had a clear and piercing thought that supplanted every imagining.
5 It blew upon them in cruel menace of conquest, in piercing inclemency.
6 It was heavy steel with a narrow point, meant for piercing armor.
7 Verena suddenly shrieked; and her piercing cry might have reached the front.
8 Rose uttered a piercing cry, and pointed in terror to the window.
9 The piercing groans and cries which followed showed the terrible effect produced.
10 She had heard that piercing ring of smitten brass in the Serapeum.
11 A chorus of piercing yells rose in answer from the deck outside.
12 The gaze she bent upon him was almost piercing in its intensity.
13 There was a piercing look in the eyes he fixed upon her.
14 The old chief stirred in his furred robe beneath that piercing gaze.
15 The soundtrack could only be heard as a single, long, piercing howl.
16 The window still stood wide open, the white, piercing moonlight streamed in.
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