Adjective : a penetrating shriek; a penetrating glance. ,a penetrating observation. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : We penetrated to the interior of the Kasbah. From Dictionary.com.
He drew a chair near her, and, in penetrating accents, said. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth] Reference
Canadian banks provide invaluable assistance to our firms in penetrating foreign markets. From Wordnik.com. [Prescriptions for Post-Control Canada] Reference
A man named Mario Valdés, today widely believed to have been a federal spy, succeeded in penetrating the rebel ranks. From Wordnik.com. [Cristero Rebellion: part 2: the combat phase] Reference
Right now, a high dollar, steep borrowing costs and inflation have confounded their success in penetrating foreign markets. From Wordnik.com. [A New Agenda for Canada] Reference
By means of dog-sleds, however, they succeeded in penetrating as far as latitude 81 deg. 35 min., on the west side of Kennedy. From Wordnik.com. [The Civil War in America] Reference
He is a news reporter for BanglaVision, one of the main news channels, who made his name penetrating the thickets of the Islamist underground. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: A Journey Across the Ground Zero of Global Warming] Reference
As someone who understands memes and how they can be useful in penetrating thick skulls, I can at least appreciate the sentiments behind the aims of this commercial. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » “Don’t Suicide Bomb.”] Reference
Talk, and people coming, and more talk, with only the occasional phrase penetrating through her growing fog. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Thus the words of Francis seemed to his hearers like a flaming sword penetrating to the very depths of their conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Life of St. Francis of Assisi] Reference
They're telling us that some of the roadside bombs they're seeing now are structured to have a so-called penetrating capability. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2005] Reference
Borthwick mentions a dragoon of thirty who was stabbed by a sword-thrust on the left side under the short rib, the sword penetrating the pelvis and wounding the kidney. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
When she went to the ER, they did a CT which showed a "penetrating" duodenal ulcer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Does he always come out with this kind of penetrating questioning, or is it just this subject ?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-25] Reference
While some only minor which are concussions, some are more severe such as penetrating head wounds. From Wordnik.com. [Only $242 million to treat soldiers with brain injuries...Yet billions to Wall Street] Reference
That's the kind of penetrating, insightful analysis that will lead blogs to forefront of political coverage. From Wordnik.com. [You keep using that phrase "fact checking," Dante ...] Reference
And they asked these kind of penetrating questions that make you understand they really know what's going on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Will a Supreme Court Decision Be the Most Important Vote of Election 2000? - December 1, 2000] Reference
Any kind of penetrating injuries such as a gunshot wound or stab wound should be identifiable plus bullets would show up on x-ray. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2008] Reference
When she shunned a word such as "penetrating" and instead went with the far classier verb "screwing.". From Wordnik.com. [ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference
If Convey, who's only 25, can bring that kind of penetrating skill, the adversary's defenses will be overmatched. From Wordnik.com. [Soccer Blogs - latest posts] Reference
Wow – that’s exactly the kind of penetrating insight on the Iraq war that America needs. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - “Come on, guys!”] Reference
But they both spent significant time in the post, didn’t/don’t have the same kind of penetrating game. howard Says. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » LeBron Versus Kobe] Reference
Horiuchi fires again, penetrating the window of the door. From Wordnik.com. ['Every Knee Shall Bow'] Reference
And, when they were served, he regarded themwith a penetrating stare. From Wordnik.com. [What the Graduates Heard] Reference
"The jihadis have been one step ahead of us by penetrating into Western society," says Gohel. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: The Fifth Man] Reference
Minority kids, penetrating deep into the heartland, are less likely to be regarded as exotic freaks. From Wordnik.com. [The Truth About High School] Reference
For more and more companies, future growth and prosperity will depend on penetrating foreign markets. From Wordnik.com. [Mickey’s Management Mojo] Reference
Animated and penetrating, he appears to be gazing simultaneously into a mirror and into the viewer's soul. From Wordnik.com. [The View From Venice] Reference
The BGA hired an East Coast expert to examine part of the Miami Avenue site with surface-penetrating radar. From Wordnik.com. [Digging Up The Past] Reference
Instead, she's quietly been establishing herself as one of the most penetrating literary critics of our time. From Wordnik.com. [A Novelist’s Double Life] Reference
They then put copies of the gene into viruses, since (as anyone with the flu knows) viruses are adept at penetrating cells. From Wordnik.com. [BRAVE NEW MONKEY] Reference
So much before, in fact, that the light penetrating the mirror had an apparent velocity 70 percent faster than the speed of light. From Wordnik.com. [Faster Than What?] Reference
The failure of intelligence in the August 1998 embassy bombings is a case study in the difficulty of penetrating bin Laden's network. From Wordnik.com. [The Road To September 11] Reference
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