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"Penetrate" in a Sentence (24 examples)
Microwaves penetrate the food in the oven.
It took a long time for Japanese imports to penetrate the American consumer markets.
She let me penetrate her.
Some years ago, large ships were sent towards the North Pole, to explore the distant coasts, and to try how far men could penetrate into those unknown regions.
Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to penetrate the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and travel to the outer regions of the solar system.
And the more we participate in our yearly congresses, the more we associate, and the more the principles of the Green Ensign will penetrate our souls.
Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
The prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.
Sami tried to penetrate Layla but she didn't let him.
A journey is a sort of door through which one comes out of reality as if to penetrate into an unexplored reality that looks like a dream.
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Light penetrates darkness.
He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
The native-born and the "naturalised" locomotives have been giving way to the standardised types, of which the L.M.S.R. class "5" 4-6-0 has led the way and has penetrated the furthest.
Considerable interest has developed within the defense community during recent years in weapons that are capable of penetrating some distance into the earth before detonating. […] To be generally effective, earth penetrating weapons (EPW) must be capable of penetrating various geologic targets, ranging from soil to rock, without producing critical damage to the payload.
and they, ... they .... fly though space, and they penetrate the atmosphere[…]after an amazing nine-month journey
Our results also identified the causative mutation of polydactylous Silkie was not exist in other nonpolydactyly chickens, suggesting that SNP of polydactyly in Silkie has fully penetrated all other indigenous Chinese chicken breeds.
Fire ants circumvented the problem of an ineffective sting by having an unusual and highly effective venom that when daubed or sprayed on other ants penetrates their waxy protective integumental barrier and kills or disables them.
I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
things which here were […]too subtile for us to penetrate
to penetrate one's heart with pity
The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.
I am advised to give her music o' mornings; they say it will penetrate
a male elephant comes up and penetrates the female
His weapons have been destroyed; his body has been or can be penetrated. In other words, he is rapable.
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