How do you use Piercingly in a sentence? See 3 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like bitterly or bitingly, plus the exact meaning.
Piercingly meaning
In a piercing manner.
Using Piercingly
- The main meaning on this page is: In a piercing manner.
- Useful related words include: bitterly, bitingly, bitter, shrilly.
Context around Piercingly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Piercingly
- In this selection, "piercingly" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seamless, accurate, possessive and honest stand out and add context to how "piercingly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include akhavan a piercingly honest unpacking and masking a piercingly possessive nature. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "piercingly" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with piercingly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He would then lavish a girl with attention and declare his undying love, all the while masking a piercingly possessive nature. (21 words)
It has yielded countless tales of love, forgiveness, overcoming adversity, redemption and, in the case of Akhavan, a piercingly honest unpacking of bisexuality. (23 words)
His switching between mediums – slick cinematography by Bill Pope, flat lighting by camcorder – recalls the seamless, piercingly accurate nostalgia work done in films such as Eighth Grade and new Sundance darling Dìdi. (32 words)
His switching between mediums – slick cinematography by Bill Pope, flat lighting by camcorder – recalls the seamless, piercingly accurate nostalgia work done in films such as Eighth Grade and new Sundance darling Dìdi. (32 words)
It has yielded countless tales of love, forgiveness, overcoming adversity, redemption and, in the case of Akhavan, a piercingly honest unpacking of bisexuality. (23 words)
He would then lavish a girl with attention and declare his undying love, all the while masking a piercingly possessive nature. (21 words)
Example sentences (3)
His switching between mediums – slick cinematography by Bill Pope, flat lighting by camcorder – recalls the seamless, piercingly accurate nostalgia work done in films such as Eighth Grade and new Sundance darling Dìdi.
He would then lavish a girl with attention and declare his undying love, all the while masking a piercingly possessive nature.
It has yielded countless tales of love, forgiveness, overcoming adversity, redemption and, in the case of Akhavan, a piercingly honest unpacking of bisexuality.