- present tense form of pervade (3rd person singular).
pervades
Example Sentences
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“The Aztec culture pervades Mexico City’s daily life today in a thousand subtle ways,” Romero says, passing me a bowl of roasted grasshoppers, a crunchy pre-Hispanic snack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
For years, researchers have been documenting the gender bias that pervades the profession.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
The smell of fresh leather goods pervades the air.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 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
In fact the whole tendency to dualism that pervades human thinking may be found to be lessened, or changed, on Winter.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
