Verb (used with object), : Spring pervaded the air.    From Dictionary.com. 

A word pervading our society, making headlines around the world, and causing the stock market to rise and fall with startling ease.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

His soul revolted at the sinister and ferocious expression pervading every lineament, and lurking in every wrinkle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

Haidee saw at a glance the same expression pervading the countenances of her two auditors; she exclaimed, 'When my mother recovered her senses we were before the serasker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference

'pervading' means 'being of such a nature as to enter, owing to excessive minuteness, into all non-sentient things.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference

Or is it simply the dispiriting mediocrity pervading the performance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CD review: Decca's 'Carmen,' featuring Andrea Bocelli] Reference

Indeed, there's a real "what do we do now?" feeling pervading Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [New jobless claims up, economic recovery in serious doubt -- or worse] Reference

May I not determine this vital question by thine all-pervading light?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference

There was a disagreeable odour pervading the air, that made us feel sick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

Now it is just this faith that is so largely pervading the religious world to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Radiant] Reference

In any case, the NGWS effort is pervading Microsoft's plans to dominate beyond the desktop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft's Crapshoot] Reference

Taylor's rankings attempt to dispel the false notions pervading the realm of ballpark food.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's Best Baseball Stadiums] Reference

The anticipation and glee were such that the pervading desire was not to eat, but to be off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference

We have unmistakeable proofs of the presence of a poisonous process pervading the whole organism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference

There's a pervading sense, moreover, that the benefits of democracy have not flowed freely enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of The Affair] Reference

That same sense of loss, pervading the highest government echelons, helped smooth the change in command.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day Kennedy Died] Reference

They have said, "It is the all-pervading force which was lying away back in the antechambers of eternity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference

A pervading hue of the mossy green of antiquity harmonizes all this medley, which is undoubtedly centuries old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

This revolt was not only against Zibeline's fortune; it included her all-pervading charm, which penetrated his soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Charity was the outpouring of his heart; its pervading essence was that which he expressed in one of his Melodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

At that time there was a high state of political feeling pervading the country, on account of the questions growing out of the new.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Maria did not keep him from looking up regretfully at sight of the precious broken jug and the strong odor of whiskey pervading the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

But the all-pervading ardour of youth's "Will of Life" whispers with a bitter realisation of what death really means that you WANT to live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

In accordance with Vedic traditions, DC sees pure consciousness as a vast ocean pervading the universe, creating matter and everything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul?] Reference

“The anti-science strain pervading the right wing in the United States is the last thing the country needs in a time of economic challenge.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brendan DeMelle: Nature Editorial Slams GOP for Anti-Science Tendencies] Reference

He still held to the idea of a pervading fluid and maintained that the depth of the magnetic sleep depended upon the amount of the magnetic charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

Many commentators have noted the increasing tide of irrationality, alarmism, and fear that has been pervading public discourse in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amarnath Amarasingam: Jon Stewart's 'Million Moderate March'] Reference

The image of Rangel as symbolic of a broader out-of-touchness pervading Congress, which many voters believe to their core, is a dangerous one for Democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fix: 'If it comes to a vote, Charlie will not win'] Reference

Ask the unbeliever, the materialist, what this vital principle is, and he answers: "It is the all-pervading force that is modified by the organic structure.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference

The highly respected British journal Nature, in an unusual editorial last week, criticized the "anti-science strain pervading the right wing in the United States.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Midterm candidates embrace climate denialism] Reference

It rises from the apparent death and is resurrected in the form of new and nobler and more widely pervading ideals which communicate their inspiration to all humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Radiant] Reference

Truthfulness and the will for consciousness evolution, raw yet kind by the compassionate innateness of being all pervading, this final frontier is exploding into actual being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sebastian Siegel: Letting Go to Hold On] Reference