penetrative

Example Sentences

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Unless there are recurring, penetrative rains in August, the family will sell half of its herd.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2021

The report says mobile phones "reveal patterns of our daily personal and professional lives and enable penetrative insights into our actions, behaviour, beliefs, and state of mind".

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2020

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

A few men of genius there have been, who with vision penetrative as lightning have gazed as it were through life, at some eternal significances of which life is the symbol.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various