PERVASIVENESS in a Sentence

Learn PERVASIVENESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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1. Its tone was indeed solemn and pervasive.
2. Now, by a subtle pervasion of the new spirit, he had somehow been pushed out.
3. Despite airing them for several hours, Martha could not rid her clothes of the pervasive odor of mothballs that clung to them.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERVASIVENESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pervasive
 a.  pervading; spread throughout every part
Classic Sentence:
1  Now, by a subtle pervasion of the new spirit, he had somehow been pushed out.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
2  Its tone was indeed solemn and pervasive.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
Example Sentence:
1  Despite airing them for several hours, Martha could not rid her clothes of the pervasive odor of mothballs that clung to them.
2  Dr. Nash's approach is now pervasive in economics and throughout the social sciences and is applied routinely in other fields, including evolutionary biology.