penetrate

“I really trust in the capacity of images to penetrate into the metabolism of the spectator,” Laxe says.

He’s been drilling holes in the concrete walls with the large red contraption, which comes with a small attached vacuum that sucks up concrete dust as it penetrates the wall.

The forwards made a couple of early entries into Japan's 22 but could not penetrate so it fell to the backs to conjure up something creative.

He said the "needle probably penetrated the liver" of Baby O, and "probably accelerated his demise".

But over the last few decades, as blazes penetrate deeper into cities, he’s dealing with a different kind of problem: urban conflagrations.