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Six example sentences with permeate, each labelled with its topic.
Let the saffron permeate the warm broth for ten minutes before the rice goes in, or the color stays uneven.
Cooking
Road salt permeates the shallow aquifer each winter, and wells two miles downhill now taste faintly of it.
Environment
A low organ drone permeates the whole recording, so faint that most listeners feel it rather than hear it.
Music
Helium atoms permeate rubber so easily that a party balloon filled with it sags visibly within a day.
Science
The founder's habit of answering every email within an hour came to permeate the whole company culture.
Business
Stoic ideas permeate the emperor's private notebook, though he never names the school he followed.
Philosophy
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