saturate
verb (used with object)
to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
saturates
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present tense formof saturate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Grief saturates the early pages of Catriona McPherson’s dark mystery “The Dead Room,” in which a young widow leaves her marital home in Hawaii and returns to her native Scotland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Once triggered, the system saturates the house and property with water and firefighting foam, “creating an environment that is too wet to burn,” according to the company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Within the first three episodes starring Gatwa, Davies makes room for two broad song and dance numbers, introduces a supervillain played by “RuPaul’s Drag Race” royalty Jinkx Monsoon, and saturates sets with color.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
Silence saturates the emerald green slopes and basalt cliffs.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
“A one in a billion—no trillion—anomaly, born from the oddness that saturates your county.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
