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verb

permeate

CEFR B2

to spread throughout something; to pervade and penetrate

In a sentence

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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