Example Sentences

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Saturating audiences with doomsday stories risks desensitizing them, Nelson warned.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

Saturating areas of the city with police and soldiers — as Rio has done — is a good start to minimizing the risk, Friedlander said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2016

Saturating the most dangerous neighborhoods with uniformed cops may have temporarily helped; Las Vegas went nine days without a homicide after the patrolmen surge began.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2016

Saturating our handkerchiefs afresh and readjusting them upon our faces, we rushed aft and descended the main hatchway.

From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Collingwood, Harry