(v. t.) To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.
(v. t.) To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is totally unclear to them how they can get the skills needed for a successful career.” The report, Overlooked and Left Behind, argues that “a culture of inequality between vocational and academic routes to work” pervades the education system.
(2) The microfilaments are strands of polymerized actin which form a network that pervades the neutrophil cytoplasm.
(3) Building Britain's Future startlingly admits: "A sense of unfairness pervades modern contemporary Britain.
(4) There is good reason to hope that the speculative nature which at this time pervades our bridging efforts will eventually be substituted by unequivocal facts and deductions.
(5) The chief executive of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Paul Murphy, said the growing culture of secrecy pervading the government’s approach was disturbing.
(6) These structures pervade the cellular cords and rosette-like structures formed by immature type II pinealocytes.
(7) Examination of C. jejuni-colonized crypts by transmission electron microscopy revealed that the campylobacters freely pervaded the lumina of crypts without attachment to crypt microvilli.
(8) If they do, my hunch is that it's because their intuitions haven't kept pace with the extent that mobile technology has pervaded our lives, or with the scale of the data that outfits such as the NSA have been accumulating.
(9) Was justice itself falling prey to the menacing mood of rightwing fanaticism that has pervaded the country with the inexorable rise of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn?
(10) A debate about surveillance powers in the internet age is not best advanced by that all-pervading slogan: “nothing to hide, nothing to fear.” We cannot have a risk-free society, and it is too much to expect of the agencies or the law to deliver it.
(11) These strands form a three-dimensional lattice or mesh that pervades all parts of the cytoplasm.
(12) That Psy is promoting upmarket frocks and luxury fridges is somewhat ironic, considering Gangnam Style's lampooning of the rampant consumerism that pervades what has been described as South Korea's Beverly Hills.
(13) Quackery is currently a widespread problem that pervades all aspects of healthcare, including the treatment of learning disorders.
(14) Shock-induced drive was assumed to equally pervade all four situations; stimulus contiguity ('pairing') was present only in the DP and DPC tests; and the avoidance 'contingency' was present only in the DC and DPC paradigms.
(15) The enduring ambiguity pervades more the psychiatrist than the legal profession.
(16) The power and independence of the department chairmen and the absolute dependence on research productivity as the criterion for advancement in the academic hierarchy are pervading influences in Swedish dental education.
(17) The party conference season has done little to lift the gloom pervading the public sector, as politicians offer little to cheer staff worried about services, jobs and pensions.
(18) Nonetheless, the change in the doctor-patient relationship might merely reflect the growing indifference to people as individuals that seems to pervade our society in all service-related areas.
(19) But the message that pervades the paper is that once one is a nurse, one is a nurse forever.
(20) The upper-floor restaurants left a lot to be desired, even as the smell pervaded surrounding departments.
Plague
Definition:
(n.) That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
(n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.
(v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.
(v. t.) Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, uncloned NJ12508 stock virus killed 1 of 24 hens and FL27716 stock virus killed 4 of 24 hens, and neither produced the complete spectrum of lesions associated with fowl plague.
(2) The Semliki Forest virus spike subunit E2, a membrane-spanning protein, was transported to the plasma membrane in BHK cells after its carboxy terminus, including the intramembranous and cytoplasmic portions, was replaced by respective fragments of either the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein or the fowl plague virus hemagglutinin.
(3) Thus, has been shown a leading role of transmission of plague microbe by fleas in the maintenance of natural nidality of this zoonosis.
(4) The adsorption capacity of microgranulated polyacrylamide magnetic immunosorbents has been studied by the method of quantitative immunofluorescence as applied to the causative agents of plague, cholera, and melioidosis.
(5) Processing of plague plasminogen activator (p36 to p33), responsible for hydrolysis of Yops, required 2 h. Avirulence of mutants with inserted Mu dl1 (Apr lac) in yopE was verified and shown to occur independently of introduced fusion-dependent peptides.
(6) Their creation in 2006 marked a turning point in stem cell research , because iPS cells suffer from none of the ethical issues that plague embryonic stem cells.
(7) Like domestic animals, the latter died of hunger probably, any corpse or carcass being considered as plague victims.
(8) Attention is focused on the Railways' campaigns against malaria, plague and infectious diseases.
(9) He is an expert on the public health problems that plague El Paso and the other cities along the international border, all of which are exacerbated by abject poverty and a burgeoning population.
(10) Hollowing out legacy media’s revenues while using its content, “ digital colonialism ” and issues of censorship have plagued the company in 2016.
(11) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
(12) In the natural foci of plague and tularemia, as well as on the territories outside such foci, the causative agents of intestinal yersiniosis, pseudotuberculosis, salmonellosis, erysipeloid, staphylococci and streptococci, arena- and arboviruses have been isolated from the rodents and ectoparasites under study.
(13) The infection, confirmed by viral culture, was produced by Dutch strain (Hav 1 Neq 1) of fowl plague virus.
(14) The lytic activity of plague phage II, serovar 3, with respect to 1,800 bacterial strains has been studied: 760 Yersinia pestis strains, 262 Y. pseudotuberculosis strains, 252 Y. enterocolitica strains, 166 Escherichia coli strains, 90 Shigella strains and 270 strains of other species.
(15) Scottish Natural Heritage is exterminating them in the Outer Hebrides not because there is a plague of hedgehogs there but to protect the nests of the wading birds whose eggs and chicks a few escaped pet hedgehogs having been eating.
(16) The sera from plague patients recognized Y. pestis and Y. enterocolitica antigens ranging from 15 to 72 kilodaltons (kDa), whereas sera from immunized subjects recognized four antigenic components in Y. pestis ranging from 17 to 64 kDa and five antigens in Y. enterocolitica ranging from 16 to 68 kDa.
(17) But the project has been plagued by cost problems since it was first mooted under the last Labour government.
(18) Mourinho’s interest in Gomes and Jõao Mário suggests Bastian Schweinsteiger, who has suffered an injury-plagued first season at United and who is 32 in August, may be under threat.
(19) You’ve plagued her life and the life of her family.” Maitlis was not in court for the sentencing.
(20) In South Sudan, where civil war broke out a year ago, 1.5 million people are severely food insecure, while the sectarian violence that has plagued CAR since March has left a quarter of the population – more than 1 million people – displaced within its borders or in neighbouring countries.