Example sentences for: penetrate

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

  • Organized tours rarely penetrate these corners.

  • The sun’s rays penetrate the water, so protection is needed when snorkeling also.

  • On hatching from the eggshell, L2 worms are able to locate and migrate towards a potential host plant, penetrate the root behind its tip in the zone of elongation, and migrate intercellularly through the vascular cylinder by separating cells at the middle lamella [ 4 ] . The migration is enabled by a combination of stylet protrusion (mechanical force) and secretion of cell-wall-degrading enzymes from specialized glands [ 5 6 7 8 ] . Upon completion of migration, secretions from the nematode's glands, and potentially other cues, induce root cells to alter their development and gene expression, undergoing abnormal growth and repeated endomitotic rounds of replication to form a feeding site made up of giant cells [ 9 10 ] . The L2 feeds from the giant cells for 10-12 days, then ceases feeding and molts three times over the next two days to form the adult.

  • The Moors failed to penetrate much further north than Aveiro about halfway up the Atlantic Coast.

  • While fuck appeared in popular periodicals such as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Playboy , and others by the 1960s, it took a bit more time for the word to, um, penetrate the august pages of The New Yorker .


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