How to Use pervade in a Sentence

pervade

verb

• A feeling of great sadness pervades the film.
• Art and music pervade every aspect of their lives.
• The corn and cheese pervades all aspects of the movies.
  — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2017
• From the décor to the food to the beer, the German theme pervades Zoiglhaus.
  — Andre Meunier, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2019
• In contrast to The Cure's dark grooves, dream pop pervaded the fest this year.
  — Rob Schwartz, Billboard, 29 July 2019
• The same playful elegance pervades the rest of the house.
  — Jennifer Fernandez, House Beautiful, 6 Feb. 2019
• The last remnants of evening light lie still on the hardwood, and silence pervades the house.
  — Taran Dugal, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
• Douthat came of age during the culture wars of the 1990s, and the culture-war schema pervades his work.
  — Paul Elie, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• The movement failed, but its ethos still pervades the islands.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
• We are covered in ash and strong sulphur scents pervade the air.
  — Radina Gigova, CNN, 10 Apr. 2021
• The stories were pervaded with sickness and death and what the young men thought was love.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• But a strong expectation pervades the West Wing that changes are in the works.
  — Serafin Gómez, Fox News, 23 May 2018
• The feeling that this is a very crucial time will pervade the energy of the week.
  — Amy Solara, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2021
• Back on the set, the shock and sadness of Wood’s death pervaded the remaining work.
  — Eleanor Hildebrandt, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2018
• When screens pervade the field of vision all day, what counts as prolonged?
  — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• The forward-thinking coaches pervading the league have thus far held to a type: young and white.
  — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2019
• The artist’s tragic death and the wider suffering at the center of many of the works in Akunnittinni pervades much of the show.
  — Alex Palmer, Smithsonian, 24 July 2017
• The islanders of Chiloé are proud of the part their soil has played in the rise of this staple crop, and potatoes pervade every aspect of life.
  — Mark Johanson, The Economist, 28 Aug. 2020
• If the idea of failure brings out the analyst in you, rather than a pervading sense of dread, the startup life might just be for you.
  — Stav Vaisman, Fortune, 12 June 2017
• And the comity that once pervaded Google’s workforce was frayed.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
• Troye Sivan would like to set the record straight — well, not straight per se — about some rumors that have pervaded the internet for the last few years.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 28 July 2023
• An android disco effect pervades some of the faster tunes.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 21 June 2017
• Throughout there is the pervading sense that evil is never that far from goodness, and that sometimes both are sides of the same coin.
  — Luke Dittrich, Esquire, 25 July 2014
• Though Mama Joy is no longer with the characters, her ethos pervades the novel, lending it a sense of home.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 June 2020
• If anything, there has never been a better time to satirize the hubris and folly that pervades the world of tech.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2018
• There is a certain sense of intimacy that pervades the fair.
  — Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2024
• White guilt is the terror of being seen as a racist, as a bigot that now pervades American life.
  — Fox News, 16 July 2018
• This sense of apathy pervades many in the state, where suicide is the second leading cause of death for people aged 25 to 32.
  — Andrew Keiper, Fox News, 24 June 2018
• The cosmic web is the large-scale structure of the universe, a network of matter that pervades all the space between galaxies, Oei said.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
• To my ear, the tone always presumes in the listener the presence of an equal and thus forbids the aura of cultic idealization that pervades Lebold’s book.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024