pervade
verb (used with object)
to become spread throughout all parts of.
pervades
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present tense formof pervade (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“The Aztec culture pervades Mexico City’s daily life today in a thousand subtle ways,” Romero says, passing me a bowl of roasted grasshoppers, a crunchy pre-Hispanic snack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
The smell of fresh leather goods pervades the air.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
She sat on the patchy grass and grasped at the sense of melancholy that pervades the Fighting Oligarchy tour.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2025
In fact the whole tendency to dualism that pervades human thinking may be found to be lessened, or changed, on Winter.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
