penetrative
Example Sentences
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Martin said his side were in control early on, but many would argue otherwise given Genk's quick start and the penetrative runs of Zakaria El Ouahdi, in particular.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025
Unless there are recurring, penetrative rains in August, the family will sell half of its herd.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2021
Expected goals suggested they were three times more penetrative than Palace, with matchwinner Adama Traoré leading the way, but it was the tighter defensive performance that boded just as well.
From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2021
Above all, alchemists strove to capture the fluid, penetrative properties of ‘mercury’.
From Nature • Apr. 28, 2020
For he had in a large measure that penetrative insight into spiritualities, which connect man with the unseen world; and that mystical, incommunicable sense of a life, that is not this life.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
