pervades

Example Sentences

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Months after it was announced that the surge of immigration agents in Minnesota was coming to an end, fear still pervades parts of the US state.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

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

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

A foul, rotten taste pervades my mouth, and the water has little effect on it.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins