Example sentences for: penetrate

How can you use “penetrate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • OK, one more question: Is Brock's whole I-was-a victim-of-the-right routine a brilliant Nosenko-like cover that has allowed him to penetrate the Clinton camp's innermost recesses--gaining the confidence of the normally closed-mouthed Kendall--after which Brock will turn the tables on his original enemies?

  • It’s easy to tell that they are not: Printed patterns don’t penetrate fully to the other side, while the real batik will show thin veins of color where the dye runs along tiny cracks in the wax (printed versions may try to simulate this).

  • For several thousand years, it has been a favored spot for Indian hunters and fishermen living around the sheltered coves and fjords that penetrate deep inland.

  • The animal rights movement has yet to penetrate Japan in any significant way: the cormorants’ throats are constricted so they can’t swallow the fish they catch underwater, and their owners retrieve the catch when the hapless birds resurface.

  • These breakdowns are attributed to Mossad's failure to penetrate Arab governments.


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