- present participle of permeate.
permeating
Example Sentences
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The Fourth Amendment exists, she writes, to protect “the privacies of life” and to guard against “too permeating police surveillance.”
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Instead of shelves of alcohol, apothecary drawers stocked with ingredients like goji berries and angelica root line the walls, permeating the room with their scent.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Singh was born in 1987 in Jiagang, a small town in West Bengal state, into a household where music was not an aspiration but a daily practice, permeating every aspect of life.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
This technology is permeating a workplace to a very high degree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Then March came, breaking the back of winter with warmth permeating the cold, and with the smell of spring drifting daily to tease hope and to give shy promise of a coming radiance.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
