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  • Not even in sleep is there respite: imagery from the climb and its aftermath continues to permeate my dreams.†  (source)
  • I remember this well, because that was the soap we were issued for laundry; later on, the smell of it would permeate these rooms.†  (source)
  • Neither experience has prepared me for the wordless, eardrum-piercing, fear-inducing sirens that now permeate 13.†  (source)
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  • An odor of dankness—as much from the walls as from the marsh—permeated.†  (source)
  • The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.†  (source)
  • In fact, this togetherness permeates every aspect of our program here, including our office staff.†  (source)
  • She gasped for breath, for breath in her own rhythm, not the permeating pulsing of IT.†  (source)
  • He could smell the horse; he could hear the dry plaint of the light wheels in the weightless permeant dust and he seemed to feel the dust itself move sluggish and dry across his sweating flesh just as he seemed to hear the single profound suspiration of the parched earth's agony rising toward the imponderable and aloof stars.†  (source)
  • And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: "smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation."†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • The reds were dampened, taken down by weather or more paint, deeper permeations, and this brought them ably into the piece.†  (source)
  • And his new, heightened feelings permeated a greater realm than simply his sleep.†  (source)
  • They permeate the grain in wood, metal, and stone.†  (source)
  • A spice-laden shelf runs along one wall, and the scent of lemon and cardamom permeates the air.†  (source)
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