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How to pronounce piercingly in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms shrilly
Type Words
Synonyms bitingly, bitter, bitterly

Examples of piercingly

piercingly
At once funny and piercingly painful, the play's central subject is deafness.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Just be your natural, beardy, sinister selves with piercingly beautiful eyes.
From the washingtonpost.com
Dorothy Gallagher has written a piercingly funny book, and there's not a joke in it.
From the time.com
The air is piercingly fresh, and the desert mountains glow golden in the morning sun.
From the time.com
Legend has it that, from the piercingly-windy top of Snaefell, you can see seven kingdoms.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Additional irritation comes from the constant screams and shouts, piercingly amplified.
From the newsobserver.com
The same elements presented so coarsely in Soul Food come piercingly alive in Eve's Bayou.
From the time.com
Their piercingly beautiful music is the beating heart of the piece.
From the guardian.co.uk
Birds called piercingly, squirrels quarreled, and high branches clattered together in the wind.
From the cnn.com
More examples
  • Extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold"
  • Shrilly: in a shrill voice; "she sang rather shrilly"