PERFORATE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for PERFORATE, such as:

1. He suffered from bruises and a perforated eardrum in the accident.
2. I refused to wear headphones because they can perforate your eardrums.
3. She seemed paler in the light of the single lamp covered with a perforated paper shade.
4. Before you can open the aspirin bottle, you must first perforate the plastic safety seal that covers the cap.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERFORATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perforate
 v.  pierce, punch, or bore hole or holes in; penetrate
Classic Sentence:
1  This one is built against the solid rock, and it would take ten experienced miners, duly furnished with the requisite tools, as many years to perforate it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
2  All three remounted their horses, and set out at a good pace, while Porthos was promising his adversary to perforate him with all the thrusts known in the fencing schools.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
3  "With this needle," said the abbe, as, opening his ragged vestments, he showed Dantes a long, sharp fish-bone, with a small perforated eye for the thread, a small portion of which still remained in it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
4  Without referring to what he had believed in half an hour before, as though ashamed even to recall it, he asked for iodine to inhale in a bottle covered with perforated paper.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
5  She seemed paler in the light of the single lamp covered with a perforated paper shade.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  Before you can open the aspirin bottle, you must first perforate the plastic safety seal that covers the cap.
2  I refused to wear headphones because they can perforate your eardrums.
3  He suffered from bruises and a perforated eardrum in the accident.