PENETRATION in a Sentence
Learn PENETRATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
189 example sentences for PENETRATION, such as:
1. The sun's radiation penetrates the skin.
2. I know it, and appeal to your penetration.
3. Western ideas penetrate slowly through the East.
4. The bullet penetrated three inches into the wall.
5. Our aim is to achieve greater market penetration.
2. I know it, and appeal to your penetration.
3. Western ideas penetrate slowly through the East.
4. The bullet penetrated three inches into the wall.
5. Our aim is to achieve greater market penetration.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PENETRATION
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penetration
n. the ability to make way into or through something
n. the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)
Classic Sentence: (165 in 12 pages)
1 The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as everywhere else.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
2 This penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a child.
3 He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
4 But the truth is, that this little school-girl, fresh from the convent, talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of true and delicate sayings.
5 So much penetration, so much frankness, created admiration, but did not entirely remove his suspicions.
6 It would have required the penetration of Oedipus or the Sphinx to have divined the irony the count concealed beneath these words, apparently uttered with the greatest politeness.
7 I know it, and appeal to your penetration.
8 But, as it was, she only learned, from some very significant looks, how far their penetration, founded on Margaret's instructions, extended.
9 But perhaps my brother's penetration may enable him to have some insight into his character.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
10 Her displeasure, her penetration, and her happiness were all fearful to encounter; and the dependence of having others present when they met was Fanny's only support in looking forward to it.
11 She was still in the astonishment and confusion excited by her friend's penetration, unable to imagine how any report of Captain Wentworth could have reached her.
12 Young ladies have great penetration in such matters as these; but I think I may defy even your sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer.
13 "Well, I've seen a good deal less of you since we've got to be such pals than I used to when you were Judy's friend," he continued with unconscious penetration.
14 His hands clenched convulsively and his teeth set together as he suffered the agony of its penetration.
15 "There is still much, much before us," he said, as if with an old man's penetration he understood all that was passing in Bolkonski's mind.
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 Our aim is to achieve greater market penetration.
2 Cover the entire device to prevent water penetration.
3 If penetration is your desire I'd say that bullet would deliver.
4 Like sunlight penetrates every inch of skin feeling faint.
5 The sun's radiation penetrates the skin.
6 Western ideas penetrate slowly through the East.
7 Amazingly, the bullet did not penetrate his brain.
8 These fine particles penetrate deep into the lungs.
9 They are hoping to penetrate the Japanese market with their latest product.
10 You can hear her piano practice penetrate each room of the house.
11 To transcend is to go beyond and penetrate the mundane into a deeper truth or trust.
12 The target for the matador is a small soft spot at the base of the bull's hump, where the sword can penetrate directly to the heart of the bull.
13 The bullet penetrated three inches into the wall.
14 This employee has penetrated his boss' s meaning.
15 The knife penetrated her finger and made it bleed.