Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: pervaded
IPA transcription: [pɚv'eɪdɪd]
Usage examples
  • In yachting caps and flowing neckties they pervaded the lake to its limits.
  • Her final summer was it, And yet we guessed it not; If tenderer industriousness Pervaded her, we thought
  • He was charmed with the native taste that pervaded this village pageant, but, above all, with the dawning loveliness of the queen of May.
  • Gradually, as I became more accustomed to the idea, I realized that I was looking out on to a vast plain, lit with the same gloomy twilight that pervaded the room.
  • We need no proofs; everything relating to this young man is true." A dull, gloomy silence, like that which precedes some awful phenomenon of nature, pervaded the assembly, who shuddered in dismay.
  • Possessing such power and prestige, it is not surprising to learn that abbesses wielded great influence in temporal as well as spiritual matters; that it pervaded politics and extended to the courts of kings and emperors.
  • Mr. Perker had had a dinner-party that day, as was testified by the appearance of lights in the drawing-room windows, the sound of an improved grand piano, and an improvable cabinet voice issuing therefrom, and a rather overpowering smell of meat which pervaded the steps and entry.