pervades

Example Sentences

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Months after it was announced that the surge of immigration agents in Minnesota was coming to an end, fear still pervades parts of the US state.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

But an air of sadness pervades the grand staircases and halls of the Rand Club.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

And while Knox has the carefully chosen words of a practiced public speaker, Van Patten has a chillness that pervades.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

How can I make you see it, this strange harsh light which pervades Homer’s landscapes and illumines the dialogues of Plato, an alien light, inarticulable in our common tongue?

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt