PERVASIVE in a Sentence

Learn PERVASIVE 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.
Example sentences for PERVASIVE, such as:
1. Its tone was indeed solemn and pervasive.
2. Now, by a subtle pervasion of the new spirit, he had somehow been pushed out.
3. Despite airing them for several hours, Martha could not rid her clothes of the pervasive odor of mothballs that clung to them.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PERVASIVE
pervasive
 a.  spreading or spread throughout
Classic Sentence:
1  Its tone was indeed solemn and pervasive.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
2  Now, by a subtle pervasion of the new spirit, he had somehow been pushed out.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence:
1  Despite airing them for several hours, Martha could not rid her clothes of the pervasive odor of mothballs that clung to them.
2  Dr. Nash's approach is now pervasive in economics and throughout the social sciences and is applied routinely in other fields, including evolutionary biology.