penetrate

Example Sentences

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A powerful drill is used to penetrate the frozen ground to bury training anti-tank mines, which were never banned.

From Barron's

True, they can be “led astray,” but their mistakes will be limited and can be corrected through information that can “penetrate the whole mass of the people.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The weak flashlight beams didn’t penetrate far below the surface, and they sometimes died altogether when their batteries ran out or the boys in the boat fell asleep.

From Literature

Dolzikova said that for Russia "there appears to be some concerns about their ability to penetrate US air defences".

From BBC

The hardened tissue makes it harder for chemotherapy and immunotherapy drugs to penetrate the tumor.

From Science Daily