PERVADE in a Sentence

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1. The entire house was pervaded by a sour smell.
2. All day, she seemed to pervade the whole house.
3. A retrospective influence pervaded the whole performance.
4. But the feeling persisted, stealthily pervading her mind.
5. Throughout the book there is a pervading sense of menace.

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pervade
 v.  pass or flow through, as an aperture; permeate; pass or spread through the whole extent of
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  The passage was a long one, and seemed to pervade the whole square basement of the Manor House.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
2  All day, she seemed to pervade the whole house.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
3  Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
4  Strange to say, that quiet influence which was inseparable in my mind from Agnes, seemed to pervade even the city where she dwelt.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
5  The boys talked little, and only under their breath, for the time and the place and the pervading solemnity and silence oppressed their spirits.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  Haidee saw at a glance the same expression pervading the countenances of her two auditors; she exclaimed, 'When my mother recovered her senses we were before the serasker.'
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
8  But the feeling persisted, stealthily pervading her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
9  As you behold it, you involuntarily yield the immense superiority to him, in point of pervading dignity.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
10  And, indeed, it seemed small matter for wonder, that for all his pervading, mad recklessness, Ahab did at times give careful heed to the condition of that dead bone upon which he partly stood.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 106. Ahab's Leg.
11  He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
12  Uriah's cheeks lost colour, and an unwholesome paleness, still faintly tinged by his pervading red, overspread them.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
13  It seemed to them as though Snowball were some kind of invisible influence, pervading the air about them and menacing them with all kinds of dangers.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
14  A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
15  But she already partook of the pervading spirit of neglect which encompassed her.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence:
1  These challenges are global in nature, and pervade all aspects of society.
2  Gravitational waves are the elusive ripples in spacetime that are theorized to pervade the entire Universe.
3  It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods.
4  Till, emerging from the total and somewhat dreary silence pervading that portion of the house we had traversed, we came upon the hum of many voices, and presently entered a wide, long room.
5  They had an excellent Department of English, but even in the best departments, I was always conscious of the kind of provincialism pervading the place.
6  Throughout the book there is a pervading sense of menace.
7  A retrospective influence pervaded the whole performance.
8  The entire house was pervaded by a sour smell.
9  He was impressed by the air of quietude and peace that pervaded the valley.
10  The film is a reflection of the violence that pervades American culture.