What is "punctured"

Usage examples of "punctured".

Probably these later types also depended heavily on shellfish for food: broken and punctured ammonite shells have been found in eastern marine beds also.

After some tugging, he extracted a curved grey ancipital horn, which had punctured the spleen and sunk deep into the body.

Then the liquid reactor coolant sprayed and flooded the compartment as the number-two reactor vessel flew off its foundation and careened to the aft bulkhead, where it punctured the titanium wall.

We still were fighting furiously as we talked in broken sentences, punctured with vicious cuts and thrusts at our swarming enemy.

James Molony picked up the piercer the head waiter had left on the table and punctured the tip of his cigar with precision.

The splintering bone had punctured her lung, the resulting pneumothorax collapsing almost two-thirds of that lung.

Blein said that the siker barbs that had punctured her face had missed the eye pouch, and that the woman had the use of the sight in that eye.

The divine afflatus left him like air oozing from a punctured toy-balloon, and, like such a balloon, he seemed to grow suddenly limp and flat.

As the ice gripping the base of the structure twisted to some unseen current, the two opposites sides came into view, revealing the broken maw of wooden framework reaching beneath the street level, crowded with enormous balsa logs and what appeared to be massive inflated bladders, three of them punctured and flaccid.

Apart from slight bruising and two small indentations, there was little trace of where a twelve millimetre steel-capped bullet had punctured her skin and torn through her insides and exited at the back.

Adams and note his apparent misapprehension of questions that would tend to involve him, and note the apparent failure of his theretofore wonderfully clear and exact memory of the most trivial and unimportant details, I am inclined to reject the whole story as a fabrication that has been punctured and fallen to pieces.

The bod had been punctured and medicated by subcortical savages who knew nothing about healing.

Possibly some Auca had punctured the fabric of the plane with a spear, and, finding it vulnerable, had begun to peel it off.

Forests of towers and crocketted pinnacles punctured the drifts of stars, stabbing up from amid decorated gables.

You defended yourself with a harpin, punctured his gut, and he ran away.