Sample Sentences forpervasive (editor-reviewed)
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We were losing 35 to 0 at halftime and there was a pervasive sense of gloom in the locker room.pervasive = existing throughout something
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It is a country where corruption pervades their government at every level.pervades = is spread throughout
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They were in the woods. He could tell by the smell of pine resin in the trees and the sound of pine needles crunching underfoot. Also, there was the powerful, extremely pervasive scent of raccoon. (source)pervasive = noticeable everywhere
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Though she'd already gotten used to the pervasive camp smell, a cloudy musk that seemed to hang over everything, a mix of sweat and fear and sickness and the ever-present smoke that stained the sky, (source)pervasive = existing throughout
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Their dignity had been obliterated, replaced with a pervasive sense of shame and worthlessness. (source)pervasive = inescapable
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But this time he fit right in and felt the happiness that pervaded the memory. (source)pervaded = existed throughout
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Their overripe sweetness now pervaded the air with each breath of wind. (source)pervaded = filled
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It seemed to them as though Snowball were some kind of invisible influence, pervading the air about them and menacing them with all kinds of dangers. (source)pervading = filling (spreading through)
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The hardship is so pervasive, so inescapable, so thorough it's a noose around my chest and I cannot move anymore. (source)pervasive = present all around (widespread)
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A foul, rotten taste pervades my mouth, and the water has little effect on it. (source)pervades = is spread throughout
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In all essential respects the little gable chamber was unchanged. ... Yet the whole character of the room was altered. It was full of a new vital, pulsing personality that seemed to pervade it and to be quite independent of schoolgirl books and dresses and ribbons, and even of the cracked blue jug full of apple blossoms on the table. (source)pervade = fill
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In the thick of this meditation Archer suddenly felt himself looking at her with the startled gaze of a stranger, and plunged into a reminiscence of the wedding-breakfast and of Granny Mingott's immense and triumphant pervasion of it.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", 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 admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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Yet a sweetness stole pervadingly upon him.† (source)
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All along, I knew, I would have to be careful to counterbalance my efforts against the pervasiveness of Moody's surveillance.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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A powerful and delicious smell of cooking pervaded the corridors, (source)pervaded = spread or filled
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and this seemed to render the pervading silence and sense of loneliness the more profound. (source)pervading = filling
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