penetrate

Example Sentences

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“The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl,” he writes in “Ride, Fly, Penetrate, Loiter.”

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2010

Penetrate the deep fringe of forest and morass on foot, however, and smiling prairies are found beyond, stretching to the horizon and cut up into prosperous farms.

From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Penetrate into the forest south of the Main, and tell the charcoal-burners and woodmen to bring in material for kitchen fires.

From The Sword Maker by Barr, Robert

Penetrate into those forests of America coeval with the world; what profound silence pervades these retreats when the winds are husht!

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Penetrate 10 feet into one of these plots, which are always damp from much watering, and it takes little imagining to fancy yourself in an equatorial jungle.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard