1.   Sunshine filtered in through the leaves and an occasional chirp punctured the air.

2.   The clouds are gray, the hard rain punctures the air like nails and the sky itself seems ready to crack from the pressure of all those frozen molecules.

3.   The sentence was relatively light, but it punctured the air of invincibility Berlusconi has tried to foster to counter the welter of charges he faces.

4.   Who has not sat in a cinema, where the air, thick with thrilled expectancy, has been punctured by a shrill rrrring?