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List of antonyms from "pencilling in" to antonyms from "penned"


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Definition of the day : « penetrate »

  • verb pierce; get through physically
  • verb understand or be understood
Example sentences :
  • Into the darker secrets of the Book of Wishes we will not penetrate.
  • Extract from : « The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Does a newspaper, even the ubiquitous Petit Journal, penetrate into these solitudes?
  • Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • Angelique repeated the word very slowly, as if to penetrate its meaning.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • This hole is to enable the syrup to penetrate the inside of the lemons.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Nowadays, when one strives to penetrate things one is confounded.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • But the formal exterior of that petty pompous man I cannot penetrate.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • How eagerly did my glance endeavour to penetrate the smoky distance!
  • Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
  • We have found a substance that no ray, no electro-bullet can penetrate.
  • Extract from : « Pirates of the Gorm » by Nat Schachner
  • He tried to remember it—tried to penetrate the disguise—but he could not.
  • Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
  • This is as far as the most instructed have ever been able to penetrate.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon