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Definition of penetrating in English: penetratingadjective ˈpɛnɪtreɪtɪŋˈpɛnəˌtreɪdɪŋ 1Able to make a way through or into something. the problem of penetrating damp Example sentencesExamples - Infrared is particularly effective for penetrating thick, murky regions of space and revealing what lies beyond.
- Although alpha particles are not a very penetrating form of radiation, when inside the body they can do significant harm to any living cells they happen to pass through.
- As it happens, she plays a fierce doubles game, with a steady serve, a sure overhead, penetrating volleys and an occasional blazing return of serve.
- The sound system rolls out bass like a living beast, penetrating flesh and rattling the ribs beneath.
- Nor is it contended that it results from rising damp or penetrating damp.
- He has a low, soulful voice with penetrating anger and smarts.
- Driven by a penetrating east wind, it drifted until every hollow and depression was filled and the landscape assumed the appearance of a vast white prairie.
- As I stood outside the store, battered by the merciless, penetrating wind, I was reminded of days when I'd wear two pairs of pyjamas under my uniform in a vain attempt to keep warm.
- I started wondering about this penetrating chemical presence when some vile organic substance bubbled up from a clogged pipe in our basement floor the day after we moved in.
- No longer will your home be plagued by the penetrating effervescence that periodically resounds from the smallest room in the house.
- More often she presents her men and women with such a penetrating, somber empathy that a deliberate affective claustrophobia seizes the reader.
- I rushed into the living room to see poor Graham getting well and truly damp in a fine, penetrating rain.
- We're looking for ways of penetrating that economic community in an economic fashion.
- The puma nodded once and stepped outside into the penetrating cold.
- The mechanisms often seize through lack of use, but with the wiper motor removed - a relatively simple task - it's possible to get to the problem areas and apply penetrating oil.
- It was really cold, with a sneaky, penetrating breeze to provide an extra wind-chill.
- The peninsula is sandwiched between two sea lochs, Loch Fyne to the west and Loch Long to the east - the latter penetrating inland from the Firth of Clyde.
- It's turned suddenly rather cold, in that penetrating way that gets into the bones and takes an awful lot of shifting.
- A nasty, penetrating wind, and the sting of snizzle in the air once more.
- Acid or chemical stain is a penetrating stain that chemically etches the color into the concrete for a permanent marble like finish.
Synonyms pungent, pervasive, strong, powerful, suffocating, stifling sharp, acrid, acid, sour, biting, stinging, burning, smarting, irritating, nauseating, nauseous, sickly, offensive, astringent, bitter, fetid, cloying heady, aromatic, flowery, fragrant literary mephitic - 1.1 (of a sound) clearly heard through or above other sounds.
her scream was sudden and penetrating Example sentencesExamples - Some of these songs have a varying beat and indications of some intelligent musicianship, not like the penetrating bass that thunders out from cars and flats wherever you go.
- In an instant, he is there once more, with his familiar, intense, penetrating, braying sound.
- The wooden door burst open as if a bomb exploded behind it, the sound penetrating through the already deafening silence.
- The horns are very penetrating and to many it is a public nuisance.
- Opening her mouth Lula bellowed a penetrating snarl as her fist drove into the wall hammering a hole through it.
- The penetrating whine of the fighter-bombers and the blast of the missiles overwhelm my brain, robbing me of both understanding and psyche.
- Tim sat upright at the penetrating noise and flipped in his hammock.
- Delivering six full songs and other song fragments, her penetrating chest voice and her haunting ornaments in piquant modes were simply stunning.
- Simplistic chord structures and things just very impressive in the way that a lot of old heavy metal music is very penetrating and domineering and drowns things out.
- He created music of penetrating sadness and beauty, and with only four solo albums released in his career, he had much more to offer.
- Its penetrating tone could carry far and rise above the fracas.
Synonyms shrill, strident, piercing, carrying, clearly audible, loud, strong, high, high-pitched, piping, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, screechy, intrusive - 1.2 (of a person's eyes or expression) reflecting an apparent ability to see into another's mind; intense.
Example sentencesExamples - I looked at the doctor with penetrating eyes and declared, ‘I'll have this baby by midnight!’
- He was fairly short, a trifle rotund, with dark penetrating eyes that had a way of roving mercurially over objects under surveillance.
- One of the men was clearly a young Bill, with the same penetrating eyes and subdued smile.
- Her penetrating eyes moved to the two siblings, who apparently caught some hidden meaning that Evelyn didn't at watching the elder's haunting gaze.
- He was immediately distinguished by his diminutive figure, extremely long white beard, and dark, penetrating eyes.
- They call him a nobleman, but I knew that you, who see people so clearly with your penetrating eyes, would see him for what he was.
- They tend to feel warm, have somewhat oily skin, penetrating eyes, and sharp features.
- There were no secrets that could hide from his penetrating eyes.
- He stared at her, his piercing, penetrating gaze shooting right through her, reading her like a book.
- Or maybe I'm looking at this with a much more penetrating eye than is needed.
- Her penetrating eyes landed on her small, black school bag.
- Bobby peered into those pale, penetrating eyes, sort of shrugged and gave her a feeble chipmunk smile.
- His hair is a light brown, with very penetrating eyes, and a slightly brooding look.
- Only at nights did he fear the penetrating eyes of his wife.
- At her mother's penetrating stare, she muttered, ‘sorry’ and inhaled deeply.
- The flames of the many candles were mirrored in his deep, penetrating eyes.
- Above all, a viewer is made very conscious of the penetrating power of the artist's eyes as he stares into the mirror.
- I tried very hard that day, but I could not hear what she heard in his voice nor see what she saw in his starkly penetrating eyes.
- He wore a long, rough-looking, black cloak and looked out at you from under his hood with deep brown, penetrating eyes.
- I've never seen a child with such cold, penetrating eyes.
Synonyms observant, searching, intent, alert, shrewd, perceptive, probing, piercing, sharp, keen - 1.3 Having or showing clear insight.
the students asked some penetrating questions Example sentencesExamples - My discovery, disconcerting though it was, gave me a penetrating insight into style.
- He had not expected such a penetrating question so quickly.
- How could a penetrating or insightful script emerge from such a process, which is more than anything else the working out of different financial and corporate arrangements?
- The book ends by posing and answering a series of lucid and penetrating questions that are aimed at about the level of undergraduates and informed general readers.
- He has, with sheer penetrating insight, portrayed the decadent values and human failings of his times in simple but effective words.
- He or she allows employees to think for themselves by encouraging them to show initiative, to think critically, to ask penetrating questions about their work.
- And it's not quite the penetrating insight into the human condition it thinks it is, either.
- Expert adversaries, who have the right to receive public answers to their most penetrating questions, police the scientific method.
- He had both the subtle mind of the metaphysician and the penetrating insight of the disillusioned moralist.
- And they asked these kind of penetrating questions that make you understand they really know what's going on.
- Instead, he is most often regarded as a man of penetrating insight.
- By depending on the religious inclination of the general public he has evinced extremely penetrating insight.
- Note the dramatic narrative and implicit autobiography that emerge from this penetrating insight.
- To several cohorts of students in Social Studies 10, I can only say that I learned more from your penetrating questions than I probably ever taught you in tutorial.
- As with all aggregate health care data, these statistics were not designed to answer the most penetrating questions.
- His penetrating insights into aspects of health policy during the 1950s and 1960s are unsurpassed.
- What is this penetrating insight that leads us to the direct experience of emptiness?
- And I asked him penetrating questions everybody told me not to ask him because that is my nature.
- It is not a pedagogical treatise, it is the reflections of an artist upon art in aphorisms of penetrating insight, ready wit, and profound wisdom.
- You have to be open to a penetrating insight deeply imbedded in the stuff of language.
Synonyms perceptive, insightful, keen, sharp, sharp-witted, quick-witted, intelligent, clever, smart, incisive, piercing, knife-like, razor-edged, trenchant, astute, shrewd, subtle, quick, ready, clear, acute, discriminating, percipient, perspicacious, discerning, sensitive, thoughtful, penetrative, deep, profound North American informal whip-smart enquiring, searching, sharp, incisive, probing, deep, inquisitive, analytic, in-depth
Derivatives adverb ˈpɛnɪtreɪtɪŋli I realize I am helpless in the face of such penetratingly gauche cluelessness, and thus, I do the only thing I can do. Example sentencesExamples - he asked again, his eyes gazing penetratingly at the fair-skinned girl with an oval face, her hair cut short to reveal the nape of her neck.
- Because, believe me, the nights up here get penetratingly cold.
- There's something penetratingly strange about their songs, as their straight pop becomes unintentionally twisted in the process of trying to play it well.
- In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, she gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to help process.
Definition of penetrating in US English: penetratingadjectiveˈpenəˌtrādiNGˈpɛnəˌtreɪdɪŋ 1Able to make a way through or into something. the problem of penetrating damp the penetrating scents of pine and eucalyptus Example sentencesExamples - It was really cold, with a sneaky, penetrating breeze to provide an extra wind-chill.
- Acid or chemical stain is a penetrating stain that chemically etches the color into the concrete for a permanent marble like finish.
- Nor is it contended that it results from rising damp or penetrating damp.
- Driven by a penetrating east wind, it drifted until every hollow and depression was filled and the landscape assumed the appearance of a vast white prairie.
- I started wondering about this penetrating chemical presence when some vile organic substance bubbled up from a clogged pipe in our basement floor the day after we moved in.
- The mechanisms often seize through lack of use, but with the wiper motor removed - a relatively simple task - it's possible to get to the problem areas and apply penetrating oil.
- I rushed into the living room to see poor Graham getting well and truly damp in a fine, penetrating rain.
- More often she presents her men and women with such a penetrating, somber empathy that a deliberate affective claustrophobia seizes the reader.
- The puma nodded once and stepped outside into the penetrating cold.
- It's turned suddenly rather cold, in that penetrating way that gets into the bones and takes an awful lot of shifting.
- Infrared is particularly effective for penetrating thick, murky regions of space and revealing what lies beyond.
- No longer will your home be plagued by the penetrating effervescence that periodically resounds from the smallest room in the house.
- The peninsula is sandwiched between two sea lochs, Loch Fyne to the west and Loch Long to the east - the latter penetrating inland from the Firth of Clyde.
- A nasty, penetrating wind, and the sting of snizzle in the air once more.
- As I stood outside the store, battered by the merciless, penetrating wind, I was reminded of days when I'd wear two pairs of pyjamas under my uniform in a vain attempt to keep warm.
- Although alpha particles are not a very penetrating form of radiation, when inside the body they can do significant harm to any living cells they happen to pass through.
- The sound system rolls out bass like a living beast, penetrating flesh and rattling the ribs beneath.
- We're looking for ways of penetrating that economic community in an economic fashion.
- He has a low, soulful voice with penetrating anger and smarts.
- As it happens, she plays a fierce doubles game, with a steady serve, a sure overhead, penetrating volleys and an occasional blazing return of serve.
Synonyms pungent, pervasive, strong, powerful, suffocating, stifling - 1.1 (of a voice or sound) clearly heard through or above other sounds.
a single penetrating whistle Example sentencesExamples - He created music of penetrating sadness and beauty, and with only four solo albums released in his career, he had much more to offer.
- In an instant, he is there once more, with his familiar, intense, penetrating, braying sound.
- Simplistic chord structures and things just very impressive in the way that a lot of old heavy metal music is very penetrating and domineering and drowns things out.
- Delivering six full songs and other song fragments, her penetrating chest voice and her haunting ornaments in piquant modes were simply stunning.
- The penetrating whine of the fighter-bombers and the blast of the missiles overwhelm my brain, robbing me of both understanding and psyche.
- The horns are very penetrating and to many it is a public nuisance.
- Some of these songs have a varying beat and indications of some intelligent musicianship, not like the penetrating bass that thunders out from cars and flats wherever you go.
- Opening her mouth Lula bellowed a penetrating snarl as her fist drove into the wall hammering a hole through it.
- The wooden door burst open as if a bomb exploded behind it, the sound penetrating through the already deafening silence.
- Tim sat upright at the penetrating noise and flipped in his hammock.
- Its penetrating tone could carry far and rise above the fracas.
Synonyms shrill, strident, piercing, carrying, clearly audible, loud, strong, high, high-pitched, piping, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, screechy, intrusive - 1.2 (of a person's eyes or expression) reflecting an apparent ability to see into the mind of the person being looked at; piercingly intense.
attempting to avoid her penetrating gaze Example sentencesExamples - I looked at the doctor with penetrating eyes and declared, ‘I'll have this baby by midnight!’
- Or maybe I'm looking at this with a much more penetrating eye than is needed.
- I've never seen a child with such cold, penetrating eyes.
- He wore a long, rough-looking, black cloak and looked out at you from under his hood with deep brown, penetrating eyes.
- He was fairly short, a trifle rotund, with dark penetrating eyes that had a way of roving mercurially over objects under surveillance.
- At her mother's penetrating stare, she muttered, ‘sorry’ and inhaled deeply.
- He was immediately distinguished by his diminutive figure, extremely long white beard, and dark, penetrating eyes.
- Her penetrating eyes landed on her small, black school bag.
- His hair is a light brown, with very penetrating eyes, and a slightly brooding look.
- Above all, a viewer is made very conscious of the penetrating power of the artist's eyes as he stares into the mirror.
- There were no secrets that could hide from his penetrating eyes.
- Bobby peered into those pale, penetrating eyes, sort of shrugged and gave her a feeble chipmunk smile.
- He stared at her, his piercing, penetrating gaze shooting right through her, reading her like a book.
- They tend to feel warm, have somewhat oily skin, penetrating eyes, and sharp features.
- Only at nights did he fear the penetrating eyes of his wife.
- One of the men was clearly a young Bill, with the same penetrating eyes and subdued smile.
- They call him a nobleman, but I knew that you, who see people so clearly with your penetrating eyes, would see him for what he was.
- Her penetrating eyes moved to the two siblings, who apparently caught some hidden meaning that Evelyn didn't at watching the elder's haunting gaze.
- I tried very hard that day, but I could not hear what she heard in his voice nor see what she saw in his starkly penetrating eyes.
- The flames of the many candles were mirrored in his deep, penetrating eyes.
Synonyms observant, searching, intent, alert, shrewd, perceptive, probing, piercing, sharp, keen - 1.3 Having or showing clear insight.
the students asked some penetrating questions Example sentencesExamples - You have to be open to a penetrating insight deeply imbedded in the stuff of language.
- It is not a pedagogical treatise, it is the reflections of an artist upon art in aphorisms of penetrating insight, ready wit, and profound wisdom.
- He has, with sheer penetrating insight, portrayed the decadent values and human failings of his times in simple but effective words.
- He or she allows employees to think for themselves by encouraging them to show initiative, to think critically, to ask penetrating questions about their work.
- And it's not quite the penetrating insight into the human condition it thinks it is, either.
- By depending on the religious inclination of the general public he has evinced extremely penetrating insight.
- He had not expected such a penetrating question so quickly.
- And I asked him penetrating questions everybody told me not to ask him because that is my nature.
- Note the dramatic narrative and implicit autobiography that emerge from this penetrating insight.
- He had both the subtle mind of the metaphysician and the penetrating insight of the disillusioned moralist.
- How could a penetrating or insightful script emerge from such a process, which is more than anything else the working out of different financial and corporate arrangements?
- His penetrating insights into aspects of health policy during the 1950s and 1960s are unsurpassed.
- Expert adversaries, who have the right to receive public answers to their most penetrating questions, police the scientific method.
- The book ends by posing and answering a series of lucid and penetrating questions that are aimed at about the level of undergraduates and informed general readers.
- Instead, he is most often regarded as a man of penetrating insight.
- And they asked these kind of penetrating questions that make you understand they really know what's going on.
- As with all aggregate health care data, these statistics were not designed to answer the most penetrating questions.
- To several cohorts of students in Social Studies 10, I can only say that I learned more from your penetrating questions than I probably ever taught you in tutorial.
- My discovery, disconcerting though it was, gave me a penetrating insight into style.
- What is this penetrating insight that leads us to the direct experience of emptiness?
Synonyms perceptive, insightful, keen, sharp, sharp-witted, quick-witted, intelligent, clever, smart, incisive, piercing, knife-like, razor-edged, trenchant, astute, shrewd, subtle, quick, ready, clear, acute, discriminating, percipient, perspicacious, discerning, sensitive, thoughtful, penetrative, deep, profound enquiring, searching, sharp, incisive, probing, deep, inquisitive, analytic, in-depth
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