Example sentences for: penetrate

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

  • Morris was close enough to Leuchter to have gotten something more, to have gone a little deeper in search of a poison that does penetrate surfaces.

  • She managed to penetrate Rupert Everett's languid self-regard in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and made the brilliant but remote Denzel Washington almost puppyish in The Pelican Brief (1993).

  • He understands that self-exposure, an organizing principle of our politics and our culture, is a defense mechanism: The selves we shamelessly exhibit to the world are screens, and Avedon uses his camera to penetrate them.

  • It announced a program for hiring and training better officers with counterterrorism skills, recruiting more assets, and trying to penetrate al Qaeda's ranks.

  • Well, I am more than glad that Larry thinks that I have joined issues on the matter, and have been able to penetrate this world notwithstanding my ivory-tower-libertarian credentials.


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