Example sentences for: pervasive

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

  • But the Gael of Western Ireland and the Scottish Highlands endured an equally pervasive presence in the form of hundreds of square miles of heather covering moor and mountain to almost the complete extinction of other forms of vegetation.

  • The trick was to make the middle class's pervasive dissatisfaction with commercialism, cheap goods, and planned obsolescence into an instrument of consumerism itself.

  • In Saudi Arabia, zakat is broader and more pervasive than Western ideas of charity, in that it functions not only as charity but also as social welfare, educational assistance, foreign aid, a form of income tax, and a source of political influence.

  • The Jewish contingent has exerted a particularly pervasive cultural influence (see Food, above [where available, high-quality Jewish delicatessen food is much esteemed], and note that several common jargon terms are obviously mutated Yiddish.

  • But no one seems to care any more about influence peddling, a category of sleaze that is equally pervasive, arguably more venal, and much more easily cured.


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