Example sentences for: pervaded

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

  • There is increasing recognition that the paternalistic, colonial attitude that pervaded “tropical medicine” in the past just will not do.

  • Are the standards still alive, or are we living under the rule of the "casual Friday" ilk that has pervaded the standards of dress?

  • The conservative Daily Telegraph , no admirer of Clinton, made a two deck, seven column headline out of words from House prosecutor James Sensenbrenner: "His lies were not few or isolated but pervaded his whole testimony."

  • But the overwhelming impression the book leaves is less of devastation per se than of contempt--the contempt the Little Father of the People felt for ordinary workers, the generalized contempt for human intelligence that pervaded his regime.

  • There used to be an enormous gulf between the sense of entitlement to the good things of life, including women, that pervaded the men's mags and women's anxious obsession with self-improvement in order to be worthy of male attention.


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