pierce
verb (used with object)
to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does.
unpierceable
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a word derived from
pierce.
Example Sentences
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He seems, if I may so say, to have transubstantiated his vast imagination and fancy into subtlety not to be evaded, acuteness to which nothing remains unpierceable, and indefatigable agility of argumentation.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
The iron line of the British was unpierceable!
From Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes by W. H. (William Henry) Fitchett
And is he then unpierceable," quoth she, "That neither force nor foe he needs regard?
From Jerusalem Delivered by Edward Fairfax
"Estelle is a courageous woman and discreet with the unpierceable reticence of spontaneity."
From Balloons by Elizabeth Bibesco
Its edge did not, like that of their own weapons, blunt with usage, and they could well understand that, if armor could be formed of it, it would be altogether unpierceable.
From By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
