penetrative
Example Sentences
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Martin said his side were in control early on, but many would argue otherwise given Genk's quick start and the penetrative runs of Zakaria El Ouahdi, in particular.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025
Unless there are recurring, penetrative rains in August, the family will sell half of its herd.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2021
Above all, alchemists strove to capture the fluid, penetrative properties of ‘mercury’.
From Nature • Apr. 28, 2020
The skin can be used to test the toxicity or irritation potential of a substance, and the penetrative qualities of active ingredients in products like cosmetics.
From Reuters • Nov. 13, 2019
My father was Jacopo Antonio Gozzi; a man of fine and penetrative intellect, of sensitive and delicate honour, of susceptible temper, resolute, and sometimes even formidable.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
