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Example sentences for "penetration"

Lexicographically close words:
penetrate; penetrated; penetrates; penetrating; penetratingly; penetrations; penetrative; penguin; penguins; penholder
  1. But the knowledge that her lover has lied is a blow that upsets her equilibrium, and Immermann profoundly remarks, "For love, as long as it is unshaken, is divine penetration .

  2. The penetration of the rostrum into the skin and the discharge of an irritating saliva produce a severe itching, accompanied by the formation of an eczema-like eruption (fig.

  3. He was, therefore, very much to be feared for his practical knowledge, showing the greatest skill and penetration in the world.

  4. He numbered amongst his most distinguished servants three men who had begun by serving his enemies, and whom he conquered, so to speak, by his penetration and his firm mental grasp of policy.

  5. Cardoville had too much penetration and sagacity, not to remark, that the Princess de Saint-Dizier attached the greatest importance to this decisive interview.

  6. His face was acute and smiling; his small gray eye announced rare penetration and sagacity.

  7. There is the old leaven of the soldier and the worlding fermenting within you, which deprives your reason of the coolness, lucidity, and penetration that it ought to possess.

  8. But perhaps more people will think her ladyship's penetration was not more ridiculously at fault on this than on other occasions.

  9. Later explorers, with the fatal penetration of our time, destroy the splendid vision, reducing the emperor to a chieftain, the glittering retinue to a horde of savages, the magnificent capital of palaces to a pueblo of adobe.

  10. With unequalled bravery he combined wonderful penetration which never failed him.

  11. Still, no human penetration can foresee how long such a desirable state of accord will exist.

  12. Fortunately, the German hopes of penetration were not realised, but they were, no doubt, continuing to develop the vast possibilities of the new method.

  13. The failure of mask penetration by the Blue Cross shell prevented the full possibilities of Green Cross coming into play.

  14. Superb eyes they were, brilliant like black diamonds, endowed with sufficient penetration and strength to lay souls open and force them to confess the truth aloud.

  15. You do not find in him merely the materialist symbolism so superbly thrown off by Michael Angelo; he introduces psychological analysis of deep penetration into the painter's art.

  16. If so, I must unequivocally assert, that, in this instance, their penetration has failed them.

  17. Then, in answer to a gesture of surprise on Victoria's part, "It is to Charlotte's penetration that I owe the discovery.

  18. Marat's penetration never fails, and he has his eye on our dear colleague.

  19. No doubt its origin is commonplace and its form unscientific, but its penetration into medical terminology is none the less instructive.

  20. Although, unhappily, Communist penetration of Cuba is real and poses a serious threat, Communist dominated regimes have been deposed in Guatemala and Iran.

  21. Only by accumulation of such observations and further penetration into the problems broached shall we gain a complete insight into the laws of psychical development.

  22. In this way we understand the unconscious flowing over of speech-impulse to the motor-area[32] and conversely the gradual penetration of partial hypnosis into the speech-area.

  23. This penetration not only operates on the external surface of the matrix, but on all the other parts of which this viscera is composed, like that penetration by which nutrition and expansion is produced.

  24. Nutrition is performed by the intimate penetration of this matter in all parts of the animal or vegetable body.

  25. All these alterations can only happen by the action of an external cause; by the penetration of some part of the seminal liquor into the substance even of the matrix.

  26. His imperious temper brooks no annoyance from those around him; daily there is some new evidence of his self-will and determination; why does he so tamely submit to what, there wants no penetration to see, is galling him to distraction.

  27. Beyond this, my penetration was entirely at fault; among the crowd of grotesque and graceful figures, I tried in vain to recognize any of our own party.

  28. Rose has been flirting with you, but I thought you had penetration enough to see through her.

  29. The chief evinced much penetration and intelligence during the whole of this conversation, which gave us a favourable opinion of his intellectual powers.

  30. Ignorance and imbecility are objects of contempt: penetration and conduct give eminence and procure esteem.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penetration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    access; acuity; acumen; admission; bore; boring; cogency; decoction; depth; discernment; discrimination; edge; entrance; entree; entry; flair; foresight; graft; grafting; implantation; import; impregnation; income; incoming; infiltration; infusion; injection; inoculation; input; inroad; insertion; insight; insinuation; intake; interjection; interpolation; introduction; intromission; intrusion; judgment; keenness; leakage; overrunning; penetration; perception; percolation; perforation; permeation; perspicacity; perspicuity; piercing; prudence; puncture; reception; sagacity; saturation; seepage; sense; sensibility; shrewdness; soaking; suffusion; transfusion; transplant; understanding; wit