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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of penetrate.

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Examples

  • Your word penetrates the culture, race, time, and language.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Joyful Fox 2008

  • Your word penetrates the culture, race, time, and language.

    It's All About You, Lord Joyful Fox 2008

  • Every time alien protein penetrates by effraction, the organism suffers and becomes resistant.

    Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • At one point Malebranche discusses how the look of an impassioned man "penetrates" even people who hardly know him (LO 113), and at another a young maidservant who, on seeing someone bled through the foot, took to bed with a pain in her foot for several days (LO 114).

    Malebranche and Seventeenth-Century Views of Heredity 2005

  • At one point Malebranche discusses how the look of an impassioned man "penetrates" even people who hardly know him (LO 113), and at another a young maidservant who, on seeing someone bled through the foot, took to bed with a pain in her foot for several days (LO 114).

    Archive 2005-02-01 2005

  • A clap of Bushman thunder penetrates the air, signaling that lightning has already struck.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • It tends to begin on the outside of the corpse - the longer the body has been interred, the deeper the saponification penetrates.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • I'm no doctor, but if an AK-47 round rips through a ceramic plated vest, through the body, out the front of the vest AND penetrates the vehicle, the person whose body the round went through would not be around to write about it.

    JAROB WALSH 2010

  • What will happen when the poison penetrates the very permeable skin of the Farallon arboreal salamander?

    Maggie Sergio: The Proposal to Poison a Wildlife Refuge Maggie Sergio 2011

  • It tends to begin on the outside of the corpse - the longer the body has been interred, the deeper the saponification penetrates.

    A Bit of Soap Heather McDougal 2009

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