What is "penetrates"

Usage examples of "penetrates".

Even with seeds lying on the bare surface, the first developed roothairs, by becoming attached to stones or other objects on the surface, are able to hold down the upper part of the radicle, whilst the tip penetrates the ground.

When a foreign substance penetrates the cell membrane to the clean side, it's detected.

According to De Bary*, when the mycelium penetrates a bud beginning to elongate, the shoot developed from it grows vertically upwards.

It will strike the summits, and the social system of today is still built so that everything slowly spreads from the summits and penetrates to the very lowest layers.

And only then will man be able to follow Christ to the pure blessedness, when he learns to feel that there may be incomprehensible sublimity, loftiness and superiority without perfection: that there may also be faults in the power that has created him and in which he lives: that there are yet an infinite number of higher beings, all above him, and powerful and wise and lofty far beyond his comprehension, and yet all of them humble and faulty and weak in the power of a Most-Sublime, who is equally near to all and penetrates all with equal profoundness.

The apex after reaching the ground penetrates it, in one case observed by us to a depth of 1 inch, and in another to 0.

As soon as the tip, protected by the rootcap, reaches the ground, it penetrates the surface, if this be soft or friable.

A girl's voice, strong and firm, perhaps even a shout outside the smithy, barely penetrates between the hammer blows rippling through the heat and faint mist of worked metal.

He lights the wall lamp and detaches it from its bracket, carrying it deeper into the ship and toward the stern, where he inspects the housing where the shaft penetrates the hull.

If you turn toward him with your eyes open, the laser shoots out, penetrates your ins, tenderest of sphincters, and scans your retina.

A gust of night wind penetrates the cave deep enough to cool us, carry off some of the scents that envelop us.

I welcome the wind that assaults us, the cold chill that penetrates to my bones.