Hardly a ray of light penetrates the streets; one learns the meaning of the Italian word uggia from their cold and gloom.
The soil is a Jurassic limestone: the rain penetrates the porous rock, and sinks through cracks and fissures, to reappear above the base of the mountain in a full-grown stream.
The Gospel penetrated at first, and penetrates still, in the fashion that is suggested here.
This is the epicotyl, and another growing tip pointed toward the lower end of the kernel; this is the hypocotyl or the part which penetrates the soil and forms roots.
The bacteria take nitrogen from the air which penetrates the soil and give it over to the plants.
We know that the part of the root which penetrates the soil is tender and easily injured.
The stranger who penetrates a Mexican house under such circumstances, finds its hospitality unbounded, and its generous inmates his devoted and faithful servants either for life or until he forfeits their esteem by treachery or misconduct.
Immediately thereafter it is said that the kingdom of heaven penetrates the mass of humanity like leaven.
To this pious effusion the abbe replied in a similar strain: "The news you announce of my being irrevocably condemned to death penetrates my very heart's core with joy.
Thence it penetrates upward into the sphere of historical manifestation, and thus proves itself a church-constitutive principle.
This joy so penetrates the soul, so elevates the spirit, so changes the affections, that a prison seems not a prison but a paradise, death a goal long time desired, and the torments which do accompany it jewels of great price.
He fixes his eyes on the fifth century--he penetrates its mysteries, and the secret influences which it sends forth to after times.
The darkness into which he penetrates does but make him grasp his own guiding light the more closely.
On the other hand, the Central Argentine penetrates to the very heart of the area of the Pacific at Junin.
On the left bank of the Salado, west of the Resistencia railway, a great gulf of low prairie penetrates into the forest of the Chaco in the north, almost as far as 28 deg.
It penetrates everywhere like light; it gives vitality to souls that come beneath its rays, as Nature beneath the sun.
But that sentiment draws those who feel it ardently together, whereas between her and me a great gulf lies, whose icy coldness penetrates my very being in her presence; though the feeling dies away when I see her no longer.
The voice of her beloved makes her joyful; it flows through her veins in a crimson tide more glowing far than blood; his glance is the light that penetrates her; her being melts into his being.
The universe heard the cry and understood it; it penetrated the spheres as God penetrates them; it took possession of the infinite; the Seven Divine Worlds heard the Voice and answered.
He penetrates in disguise into the minister's harem, wounds his beloved in the hand and takes away her veil.
All knowledge which alters our lives penetrates us more when it comes in the early morning: the day that has to be travelled with something new and perhaps forever sad in its light, is an image of the life that spreads beyond.
No light penetratesto that depth--nor has it for millions of years!
Heat penetrates every body without exception which is exposed to it, while light passes through transparent bodies only, and is stopped and in part repelled, by every opaque one.
This life of seraphim, this plenitude, flows into my brain and penetrates it.
It is at times the exudation of a venomous idea, and it penetrateslike a vapour.
From the moment when the spermatozoon penetratesand fecundates the ovum, the fate of the future being is settled by their disposition.
Putting into our hands a new powerful searchlight that penetrates the interiors of body and soul, a fresh attitude toward the complicated problems of Man in society grows imminent.
If he has talent he will see with the eyes of talent--that wonderful force which penetrates all artistic mysteries and reveals the truths as nothing else possibly can.
He penetrates the various mystic problems which surround piano playing by the infallible process of persistent study and reflection.
No sound is uttered, but a deep And solemn harmony pervades The hollow vale from steep to steep, And penetrates the glades.
A miner's drill penetrates the rock only by pulverizing it.
But in what, if you please, does Parnopes carnea resemble the Bembex into whose home shepenetrates in her presence?
She penetrates into the abode, remains there for a while and at last reappears to replace the rubbish and close the door as it was at the start.
If it is only rarely that anything penetrates vividly into his numbed spirit, yet, when anything does, it brings with it a joy that is all the more poignant for its very rarity.
Frost and heat and cold can only act within the few feet from the surface to which the necessary temperature changes are limited, while water penetrates and alters the rocks to great depths.
With these facts before us, there seems little difficulty in understanding how a radicle penetrates the ground.
Even with seeds lying on the bare surface, the first developed root-hairs, by becoming attached to stones or other objects on the surface, are able to hold down the upper part of the radicle, whilst the tip penetrates the ground.
According to De Bary*, when the mycelium penetrates a bud beginning to elongate, the shoot developed from it grows vertically upwards.
The apex after reaching the ground penetrates it, in one case observed by us to a depth of 1 inch, and in another to 0.
And thou shouldst know that all have delight in proportion as their vision penetrates into the True in which every understanding is at rest.
The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and shines in one part more and in another less.
Moreover, the extreme force of a bullet that penetrates a hard substance without tearing it, may convince the savage that it has no force at all.
The sac usually penetrates into the soil and bears rhizoids on its outer surface.
All water, therefore, which penetrates the outer wall drops to the base of the cavity, and trickles out through gratings provided for the purpose a few inches above the ground level.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penetrates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
