pervade
Example Sentences
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But a far stronger feeling pervaded fields such as this one: That for now, as in the past, one simply had to work because everything counted on it.
From Los Angeles Times
The smell of fresh leather goods pervades the air.
From BBC
Reverence for the military—and the opportunities it brings—pervade the state.
But an air of sadness pervades the grand staircases and halls of the Rand Club.
“The primary reason the Eastern Front has not yet been revealed as the decisive arena of the war,” the author continues, “has to do with politics—specifically the anti-Communist prejudice that pervades Western scholarship.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
