piercing
adjective
loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
piercingly
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a word derived from
piercing.
Example Sentences
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There, he earned a reputation as a piercingly thorough interviewer of victims and witnesses—but also an uncommonly gentle and sympathetic one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Her works achieve the difficult feat of synthesizing a coma-inducing dullness with piercingly shrill extended diatribes to create reverse masterpieces worthy of the most risible North Korean propaganda.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024
The unnerving sharp edges of Mariá Portugal’s piercingly dissonant score herald impending trouble.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
Around Hamm’s neck hangs a whistle, and when he blows it to summon the beaten-down Clov, it is piercingly shrill — a sound to cut through far more noise and distance than ever separate them.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Instinctively she turned under her piercingly sharp talons, and stepped over the shivering eyas.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
