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"Penetrating" in a Sentence (14 examples)
He gave me a penetrating gaze.
Tom gave me a penetrating gaze.
Two gentlemen were awaiting us in the station—the one a tall, fair man with lion-like hair and beard and curiously penetrating light blue eyes; the other a small, alert person, very neat and dapper, in a frock-coat and gaiters, with trim little side-whiskers and an eye-glass.
One of these strangers was about forty years of age, tall, and thin in the flanks, with an aquiline nose, dark penetrating eyes, and a shrewd but sinister cast of countenance.
Ravenswood fixed upon her his keen dark eyes, as if he was desirous of penetrating into her very soul.
Helium is capable of penetrating glass.
Sunlight is penetrating the curtains.
Mentally the Third Men were indeed very unlike their predecessors. Their intelligence was in some ways no less agile; but it was more cunning than intellectual, more practical than theoretical. They were interested more in the world of sense-experience than in the world of abstract reason, and again far more in living things than in the lifeless. They excelled in certain kinds of art, and indeed also in some fields of science. But they were led into science more through practical, aesthetic or religious needs than through intellectual curiosity. In mathematics, for instance (helped greatly by the duodecimal system, which resulted from their having twelve fingers), they became wonderful calculators; yet they never had the curiosity to inquire into the essential nature of number. Nor, in physics, were they ever led to discover the more obscure properties of space. They were, indeed, strangely devoid of curiosity. Hence, though sometimes capable of a penetrating mystical intuition, they never seriously disciplined themselves under philosophy, nor tried to relate their mystical intuitions with the rest of their experience.
Fungi talk, but it's mostly a mix of nonsense and penetrating insight into your life.
Dredging is a fishing method in which a dredge is dragged across the sea floor, either scraping or penetrating the bottom.
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The skunk produces a penetrating odor.
As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.
He had a very penetrating pair of brown eyes.
His novel shows a penetrating insight into the criminal mind.
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