How to Use infiltrate in a Sentence

infiltrate

verb
  • Attempts to infiltrate undercover agents into the gang have failed.
  • Water can easily infiltrate the soil.
  • The gang was infiltrated by undercover agents.
  • The first colder air mass will infiltrate the East over the next couple of days and into the weekend.
    Judson Jones, CNN, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Bernard explains the meet was a set-up, an attempt to infiltrate her group.
    Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 11 July 2022
  • To survive, their small queens infiltrate the colonies of other ant species and lay eggs there.
    Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
  • The stormers and the anchor group had made it to the Ukrainian trenches on the ridge and were waiting to infiltrate Tabaivka.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • In cows, this type of bird flu seems to infiltrate the mammary system.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2024
  • Clouds start to infiltrate the area later in the day on Sunday but not before highs climb into the mid- to upper 50s.
    Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
  • It's set to feature the Skrulls, who've managed to use their shape-shifting powers to infiltrate Earth over years.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 17 May 2022
  • The group, led by Thomas Rousseau, has been infiltrated and hacked several times.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
  • It’s all painted a much brighter picture than the one that the many layoff posts infiltrating LinkedIn are painting.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Amid this tumult, Hamas had been planning to infiltrate Israel by land, air, and sea, and not just for a one-off attack.
    Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • But hackers never stop finding new ways to infiltrate the store.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Holmes and her Pelling lab colleagues sterilized the crumbs, soaked them in nutrients, and allowed young cells to adhere to the crumbs and infiltrate the pores.
    Raleigh McElvery, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Suitable for use both morning and night, this foaming cleanser is nondrying but still is strong enough to infiltrate and clear pores.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • Years later, amid a larger cowboy boot resurgence, Sample and Lemkin are poised to infiltrate street style with their take on the best leather boots.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The squirrels have infiltrated your apartment and ransacked the place.
    Bryn Durgin, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
  • Her daughters, Ella (Ramsey), and Jo (Young), put everything on the line to infiltrate the cult and bring their mother back home.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 May 2024
  • If the little suckers have already infiltrated, here’s one way to kill them.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Simmonds is the buyer, and Fortune has a plan to infiltrate the arms dealer's inner circle.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Rainwater can infiltrate the city’s old, leaky pipes, only adding to the problem.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2023
  • The attempt to infiltrate Varadarajan’s phone and install Pegasus, which took place on Oct. 16, failed, Amnesty found.
    Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Members of the unit look, speak and dress as Arabs to infiltrate protests and conduct assassinations.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Affinity fraud is a tried and true way for scammers to infiltrate a network of friends and family.
    Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
  • To keep up, the team outsourced some of the projects to intelligence firms, which sent contractors to infiltrate driver protests.
    New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The danger arises if a hacker is able to infiltrate a network and gain at least partial access.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 9 July 2024
  • The discoveries show how the bogus parts have infiltrated planes from the United States to Australia.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Tribal officials are concerned the contaminants from human septage can infiltrate groundwater, wetlands and ecosystem, and can endanger the water and soil of the community.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2024
  • As technology continues to infiltrate and transform mathematics, the question will only become more pressing.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024

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