Once all the piercing is done, the mosquito’s head also has structures to help it suck up as much blood as possible.
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It’s a sweeping work of care and one that is often piercing in its painful beauty.
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“Hell yeah,” he says with a smile and a piercing, blue-eyed stare.
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Thunderous sounds announce its arrival, piercing the silence that accompanies sundown in the swampland near Boystown, Liberia.
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Sensitive subjects are met with a short burst of laughter, and serious answers are sandwiched between a piercing gaze.
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One of the most piercing observations of the article is that while those who had worked with him trusted Welby, no one knew him.
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His piercing azure eyes are complemented by a new addition to his appearance: a septum piercing in his nose.
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He was an elderly man, with hard features and piercing eyes, who received me almost brutally, as if I had been a criminal.
The Clique of Gold|Emile Gaboriau
Montbarts was a young man of about seven or eight-and-twenty, with manly and marked features, and a fixed and piercing eye.
The Buccaneer Chief|Gustave Aimard
But over their tumult there came a wild outburst of piercing shrieks.
The Scapegoat|Hall Caine
Towards three o'clock in the morning Herbert uttered a piercing cry.
The Mysterious Island|Jules Verne
With a piercing yell she turned and fled, and with such precipitancy that she pulled the net off the handle.
The Uttermost Farthing|R. Austin Freeman
British Dictionary definitions for piercing
piercing
/ (ˈpɪəsɪŋ) /
adjective
(of a sound) sharp and shrill
(of eyes or a look) intense and penetrating
(of an emotion) strong and deeply affecting
(of cold or wind) intense or biting
noun
the art or practice of piercing body parts for the insertion of jewellery