Sample sentences for PERVASIVE

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Definition

existing throughout something; or generally widespread

We were losing 35 to 0 at halftime and there was a pervasive sense of gloom in the locker room.

pervasive = existing throughout something

pervades = is spread throughout

A powerful and delicious smell of cooking pervaded the corridors,
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

pervaded = spread or filled

A suffocating odour pervaded the prison!
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

pervaded = filled

He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

pervading = filling

The smell is fiendish, and it pervades the entire dwelling.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

pervades = is spread throughout

But this time he fit right in and felt the happiness that pervaded the memory.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

pervaded = existed throughout

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.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

pervading = filling (spreading through)

and this seemed to render the pervading silence and sense of loneliness the more profound.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

pervading = filling

She raised the lids on two other pots, but still the odor of the onions, pepper, and garlic pervaded the room.
Ernest J. Gaines -- A Lesson Before Dying

pervaded = filled

Pervading everything was the odor of pine and fermenting fruit.
Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon

pervading = throughout (filling)

A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.
Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

pervade = spread throughout

Their overripe sweetness now pervaded the air with each breath of wind.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

pervaded = filled

The smell of oil, stifling in its intensity, pervaded the air.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

pervaded = filled

pervading = spreading

...our distaste for the city grew and grew and became a sweeping, pervading hatred.
Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve

pervading = existing throughout something

pervades = is spread throughout

He believed that since decay, vice, filth, and disorder were pervasive, they must be in the Nature of Things.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye

pervasive = existing everywhere

The hardship is so pervasive, so inescapable, so thorough it's a noose around my chest and I cannot move anymore.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan

pervasive = present all around (widespread)

Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own

pervades = exists throughout

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