Sample sentences for the GRE study word penetrate

penetrate can be used as a verb

1.	Existing I peer and penetrate* still.* - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
2.	She soon believed herself to penetrate* Mrs.* - from Emma by Jane Austen
3.	The obscurity was so difficult to penetrate* that Mr.* - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
4.	Your dreams O years, how they penetrate* through me I know no.* - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
5.	I will penetrate* what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me.* - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
6.	To penetrate* the inmost lore of poets--to know the mighty ones.* - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
7.	Did we count great, O soul, to penetrate* the themes of mighty books.* - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
8.	What cities the light or warmth penetrates* I penetrate those cities myself.* - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
9.	Still I would penetrate* their misty veil and seek them in their cloudy retreats.* - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
10.	We penetrated* deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.* - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
11.	Woe to him who penetrates* thithe.* - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
12.	He penetrated* to Cosette's bedroom.* - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
13.	The farther I penetrated* into London, the profounder grew the stillness.* - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
14.	That evening he and Albert once more penetrated* the grounds of Astley Priors.* - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
15.	But here were books, and here were men who had penetrated* deeper and knew more.* - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
16.	The closer you penetrated* to the substance of his mind, the sounder it appeared.* - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
17.	A little light penetrates* towards mid-day.* - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
18.	The cause of death was a deep stab in the left side, which must have penetrated* the heart.* - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

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