Verb (used with object) : Bright sunshine permeated the room. ,Cynicism permeated his report.    From Dictionary.com. 

"Reform" has been the buzzword permeating the defense industry since President Barack Obama signaled his intention to trim defense programs last fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [azcentral.com | news] Reference

There's a new N-word permeating our culture and it has nothing to do with racial epithets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Bronstein: We're All the New N-word: It's Not About You, It's About Me] Reference

With such terms permeating our daily language, it’s not surprising that parents are getting nervous and reaching for reassurance that their kids are indeed psychologically OK.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference

United States a permeating retrogressive influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States] Reference

In the reform atmosphere slowly permeating the Bureau of Naval.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference

He had to fight to resist the waves of hysteria permeating the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

The noises I heard in the garage were still there, permeating the car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunnies] Reference

The trial signals a new energy permeating the field of stem-cell research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem-Cell Breakthrough] Reference

"That desperation you feel permeating the script is pretty real," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex and The Suburbs] Reference

I capitalized legitimately on the dissatisfaction that was permeating our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimmy Carter: Tea Party Will Likely Be A 'Major Factor' In November, But Less Of A Force In 2012] Reference

It's about time for a denouncement of the "give back" ethos permeating our society.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Giving Back' Isn't a Reparation for Taking Unfairly] Reference

Facebook, as it became after a name change, was permeating every aspect of campus social life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facebook Grows Up] Reference

A profuse ochre sunlight poured through the window permeating the scene at the wedding banquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference

There is a somewhat solid material permeating it, usually, regarded as having a reticulate structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference

And since the power of the national faith was all-permeating, its reconstruction was far-reaching in effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

The bloom of the bride was gone, and the finer permeating beauty of the happy mother had failed to replace it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference

But it was a cherry of olden time, with the bloom quite gone, the dust of the years permeating its silken warp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

I told Patrick to imagine the sound permeating his body at different points and to respond to it with only his movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Schimmelman: Rehearsal in a New York City Night] Reference

And with this interpretation of the strange, new joy day by day permeating his whole life, he went his way in deep content.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Time Appointed] Reference

SYSTEM, and with the continuous stream of Magnetism permeating through the afflicted organs, MUST RESTORE THEM TO A HEALTHY ACTION.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference

In the language of physics, the stratus forms an equipotential surface in the gravitational field permeating the earth's atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Or to turn to larger things, what was it but this same power of organization that made ready a great revolutionary movement, permeating.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference

In that campaign, Carter says he was an "outsider" who "capitalized legitimately on the dissatisfaction that was permeating our society.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimmy Carter: My role is 'superior' to those of the other ex-presidents] Reference

In his report, Perry says that all of the children exhibited a "permeating and pervasive fear of displeasing David or betraying his 'secrets'.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Children Of The Cult] Reference

There was a sense and expectancy of coming battle abroad, and an eager desire permeating all ranks to have it out with the dervishes then or never.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

In another, it was the services 'expression of those liberalizing tendencies that were permeating American society during the era of civil rights activism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference

The heat from the over-heated revellers, the aroma permeating the atmosphere, was not unfamiliar to the Colonel's sense of smell yet none the less unpleasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

To save money, Disney has ordered layoffs and is moving much of ABC's operations from New York to L.A., adding to the sense of upheaval permeating the network.    From Wordnik.com.  [She's Out Of Friends] Reference

One was the growing sentiment in favor of independence which was permeating all classes of society, and the other the great revival of learning among the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

That it does so, is true, but that it is always an "error," we should not so readily admit, as one of its permeating effects upon society in Beyrout, may illustrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

Look for very gradual changes in speech, through the permeating power of imitation, but do not forget that this is the stage of expression which inevitably precedes art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference

You'll learn other ways to freeze fruits and vegetables and prevent freezer burn and odors from permeating produce with this advice from the University of Minnesota Exentsion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip of the Day: Freeze summer fruits and vegetables] Reference