verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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deep
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At their heart is the Cheddar Gorge and the famous show caves penetrating deep into the hills.
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Those affirmations penetrated deep inside me, filling me with gratitude.
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Although they did not succeed in holding much territory, they proved their ability to penetrate deep into SOC-held territory.
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Such particles are considered dangerous because they penetrate deep into the lungs, where they can cause disease.
deeply
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Top growth will be dead, but frosts are unlikely to have penetrated deeply .
even
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Had they even penetrated the licensed taxicabs of London?
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Maybe that had even penetrated his thick skull.
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With the old keys Charley had penetrated even to her bedroom.
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We had even penetrated the ice.
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They might have been alone in the mountains, because the passing traffic never even penetrated their minds.
■ NOUN
atmosphere
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The weak, fast-moving, easily ablated comets do not penetrate the atmosphere very deeply.
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Even quite small bodies can penetrate the tenuous atmosphere of Mars and cause erosive explosions on its surface.
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Moreover, the detector would have to be in space, because gamma rays can not penetrate the atmosphere .
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Indeed, kilometer-sized bodies will penetrate the atmosphere and impact with the surface almost irrespective of their composition and strength.
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The more nearly vertical an object's trajectory, the deeper it penetrates into the atmosphere before catastrophic disruption.
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As noted earlier, the ability of an entering body to penetrate the atmosphere and survive deceleration depends on its crushing strength.
layer
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I have tried ever since, through writing, to penetrate my own layers of protective skin.
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The Magellan radar-mapping mission was designed to penetrate the dense cloud layer and return detailed radar images of the surface geology.
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To gain access to her he has to penetrate many layers of permeability.
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Sunlight can not penetrate the layer , and heat can not be conducted through it.
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Thunder could not penetrate the layers of stone above and around her.
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Sunlight penetrates the layers of skin, damaging the collagen and elastic fibres.
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The aircraft quivered when it penetrated the thin layers of cloud in its path.
light
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The Pin At night, no light penetrates the interior except through stained glass.
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When long-life milk is packaged, it is sealed in aseptic boxes that prevent light and air from penetrating .
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In water, sonar is essential for long distance perception, for light can not penetrate more than sixty feet or so.
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The deeper they live, the less red light penetrates compared with blue.
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The grey forms allow themselves to be read as clouds, through which stronger light is managing to penetrate .
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The browner the water, the less blue light penetrates .
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Their enemies, however, are fish that live in water where yellow light penetrates best.
market
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This may act as a disincentive to penetrating other national markets .
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As Benhamou noted, the industry is starting to penetrate the small office market .
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But it predicts massive sales and energy savings only if heat pumps penetrate the space-heating market .
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In the 1991 Employee Report, we outlined our plans to penetrate the Middle East market .
skin
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Bernice felt something, some force, move through her, penetrating her skin as though it were ether.
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The virus can not penetrate the skin , if picked up on the skin from an environmental surface.
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Beta particles can penetrate the skin but can be stopped by metal.
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Would the cream dissolve fat on contact or penetrate the skin ?
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Although the infective larvae can penetrate the skin , the infection rarely matures and there is no evidence as yet of transmammary infection.
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Sunlight penetrates the layers of skin , damaging the collagen and elastic fibres.
surface
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The anomalous heat is thought to be due to solar energy, which penetrates the surface ice in spring and warms the depths.
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They do not readily penetrate a panned surface .
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If it is plastic it will penetrate the surface , but be careful not to go right through.
wall
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Instead of endeavouring to penetrate its ten-foot thick walls , the rebels invited Grenville out to parley.
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Outside, the Rippowam River ran so swiftly its roar penetrated the granite walls .
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The larvae then penetrate the intestinal wall , and travel through the horse's tissues to organs such as the liver and pancreas.
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They are a rare opportunity to penetrate the usual wall of indifference.
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This is due to the fact that the bacteria normally used to penetrate the cell walls does not affect them.
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It had penetrated the chest wall from the front, and pierced the left ventricle of the heart.
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After ingestion and hatching the larvae penetrate the intestinal wall and within 48 hours have reached the liver.
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A blocked rainwater gutter leads very quickly to damp penetrating the walls .
water
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It is into these, the minute irregularities, that water can not penetrate .
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Their enemies, however, are fish that live in water where yellow light penetrates best.
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The inability of water to penetrate is the result of a phenomenon known as water tension.
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If water can penetrate and collect in joints, the wood will rot quickly unless steps are taken to prevent it.
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The cold water penetrated his fur almost at once.
■ VERB
allow
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Similarly, granting a carbonaceous object the strength of a stony asteroid would allow it to penetrate to comparable altitudes.
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Maps to particular places allow one to penetrate the maze, by appointment as it were.
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Position your head over the bowl and cover your head and the bowl with a towel to allow the steam to penetrate .
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Cut two diagonal slashes on each side to allow heat to penetrate .
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It saves a few pence but it is a weak point that could allow moisture to penetrate .
fail
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A Chancellor of the Exchequer who had failed to prevent thieves penetrating his treasury was summarily beaten to death.
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Moreover, it had failed to penetrate very deeply in the schools.
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Why have they failed to spectacularly to penetrate the mainstream?
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One had failed to penetrate airport security at Budapest, got himself arrested and deported.
seem
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The chill from the bare wall seemed to penetrate to her bones.
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Occasionally he would ask me a question but the answer seemed not to penetrate very far.
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He was feeling the clammy cold that seemed to penetrate his thick coat and chill his bones.
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The wind was cutting across the open space at great speed, so cold it seemed to penetrate his bones.
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Nothing seemed to penetrate Violet's consciousness as she waited for the fight to start.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
penetrating look/eyes/gaze etc
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Although most people would have stared at his nose Adam was more struck by his penetrating eyes.
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He was from Fukien province, was missionary-trained, and had bright, penetrating eyes.
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Matron was equally dignified, with a towering cap of white linen and a penetrating gaze.
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Nomatterwhat she did to distract herself, his dark penetrating eyes lingered in her memory as though they'd been branded there.
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Take a long hard, and penetrating look into the way you handle your life and the pattern of your partnerships in general.
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The woman scrutinized me from across the office, holding her penetrating gaze as I walked toward her.
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They were the blackest, brightest, most penetrating eyes I ever saw....
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dario was attempting to penetrate Nature's mysteries.
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He threw a grenade that penetrated the wall of the building and exploded inside.
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Islam has penetrated vast parts of Africa and Asia.
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Spies had penetrated the highest ranks of both governments.
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The barbed wire fences and security shields made the air base very difficult to penetrate .
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The bomb penetrated the wall and exploded inside the building.
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The fall weather outside penetrated the room.
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The sun's rays can penetrate the sea to a depth of twenty metres.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among computer buyers, the least penetrated group is households earning less than $ 30, 000 a year.
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As a general rule, the older and more stable the community, the more difficult it is to penetrate .
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But eventually the staff penetrated her resistance and the girl learned to write.
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Federal law on segregation had been changed in 1960; the news had yet to penetrate below the Mason-Dixon line.
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For years, federal law enforcement officials were reluctant to penetrate the movement.
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However, laboratory tests show that Gore-Text can be penetrated by prolonged exposure to rain.
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It may then penetrate the side of a tank or fly over the top.