pervades
Example Sentences
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Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
The smell of fresh leather goods pervades the air.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
But an air of sadness pervades the grand staircases and halls of the Rand Club.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025
She sat on the patchy grass and grasped at the sense of melancholy that pervades the Fighting Oligarchy tour.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2025
How can I make you see it, this strange harsh light which pervades Homer’s landscapes and illumines the dialogues of Plato, an alien light, inarticulable in our common tongue?
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
