piercing

Thunderous sounds announce its arrival, piercing the silence that accompanies sundown in the swampland near Boystown, Liberia.

Sensitive subjects are met with a short burst of laughter, and serious answers are sandwiched between a piercing gaze.

One of the most piercing observations of the article is that while those who had worked with him trusted Welby, no one knew him.

His piercing azure eyes are complemented by a new addition to his appearance: a septum piercing in his nose.

He was an elderly man, with hard features and piercing eyes, who received me almost brutally, as if I had been a criminal.

Montbarts was a young man of about seven or eight-and-twenty, with manly and marked features, and a fixed and piercing eye.

But over their tumult there came a wild outburst of piercing shrieks.

Towards three o'clock in the morning Herbert uttered a piercing cry.

With a piercing yell she turned and fled, and with such precipitancy that she pulled the net off the handle.