pervades
Example Sentences
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Dry humor also pervades a novel that is enriched throughout by the laconic speech of the region.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
The smell of fresh leather goods pervades the air.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
Yet in the erasure of history, in the paralyzing censorship that pervades many parts of the world, we risk forgetting the lessons of the past.
From Salon • Aug. 3, 2025
She sat on the patchy grass and grasped at the sense of melancholy that pervades the Fighting Oligarchy tour.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 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
