Usage examples (33)

• When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
• These shades of expression pervade their language, tempering all their communications, and frequently imparting its pathos or energy to their eloquence.
• We affirm Judge Bridges's conclusion that severance is not possible because the four unconscionable terms pervade the dispute resolution section of the agreement.
• Demring hurried on, in a scandalized voice: "When we had fared thus far, we found the darkness was dust and gas such as pervade the universe at home.