(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.
Riddle
Definition:
(n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
(n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
(v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
(v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
(n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
(v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
(v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Example Sentences:
(1) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
(2) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(3) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
(4) He admitted, however, that he had not been able to find any record of this incident on the police computer and Mr Justice Riddle said that the evidence was "third-hand, anonymous hearsay".
(5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(6) Mostly Nick was uncommunicative and occasionally he’d become talkative and you hung on his every word even though, very often, one didn’t know what they meant because he’d talk in riddles.
(7) I just think of when I dressed Tom and brushed his hair when his remains were returned to me, his body riddled with bullet holes.
(8) These counter-transferential concerns ultimately made the woman's psychological essence an unknowable riddle for Freud.
(9) But it was not smart to tell Jemima Khan that the new-look Tory party was "riddled with gays".
(10) What they say "You are an enigma wrapped in a riddle nestled in a sesame seed bun of mystery" – Stephen Colbert
(11) The response of the authorities is riddled with contradictions.
(12) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur apartment in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
(13) The dog shit – once warm, then frozen hard, and currently melting in the sun into pools of bacteria-riddled goop – and the used condoms and the defrosting vomit, the artifact of what some drunken bros ate on a wild February night preserved for the bottom of my shoe many weeks later.
(14) Police have carried out a series of operations against the Russian mafia and its money-laundering operations in Spain's corruption-riddled property sector over the past four years.
(15) She’s riddled with guilt now she sees that nothing has changed.
(16) The study reveals that while general awareness of AIDS is fairly good, detailed knowledge is riddled with misconceptions and confusion.
(17) Quite why Scotland Yard should behave like this remains unproved – another riddle waiting to be solved.
(18) Narendra Modi’s India, while growing quickly, remains riddled with uninvestigated corruption scandals .
(19) How apt that terms of bigotry should be riddled with class snobbery.
(20) The more serious riddle for the government is: how on earth did this policy get through in the first place?