She looked at me with 'piercing' eyes, and I was suddenly frightened that she knew what I had done.
There's a small shop in town where they do tattooing and 'body piercing'.
She felt a 'piercing' sadness when she heard the news.
(..) WOMAN: It's as if it turns... every part of your body into the tip of a penis. Wow. I'll lend it to you. It's a great book on piercing. SECOND WOMAN: Well, you see how they use that gun... to pierce your ears? They don't use that to pierce your nipples, too, do they? Forget that gun. That gun goes against the entire idea behind piercing. WOMAN: All my piercing, eighteen places on my body... every one of 'em done with a needle. Five in each ear. One through (..)1994 Pulp Fiction