How to Use penetrating in a Sentence

penetrating

adjective

• She is one of our most penetrating and provocative critical thinkers.
• To drink a great wine, made from grapes that shimmered those dewy mornings in ’64 is, for me, a penetrating thing.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2016
• So, instead, here are some of the most startling and penetrating quotes from Nanette.
  — Jenny Hollander, Marie Claire, 20 July 2018
• A little penetrating oil drizzled on the bolts the day before will help.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2017
• However, Lewis is a speedy and penetrating lead-guard who can break down defenses off the dribble and get to the basket.
  — Morten Jensen, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Fluorouracil is tougher and more penetrating than blue light therapy, which works best on thin skin areas such as the face and scalp.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2017
• Eldridge has a penetrating type of attention, and Lage seems a little mischievous and wild-eyed.
  — Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2017
• Not only did a deep and penetrating sadness threaten to extinguish the will of the congregants, but a numbing fear had settled over them like a fog.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 19 July 2017
• Misdirection fakes, screens, play-action and draws, for example, can take the edge off a penetrating front.
  — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• With the help of one particularly intrepid female seal, the researchers discovered that heat stored at the ocean’s depths can sometimes get swirled back up to the surface thanks to some deeply penetrating currents.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 6 Dec. 2019
• The patients sustained non-penetrating spinal cord injuries from falls or minor trauma.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 24 Feb. 2021
• The gaze is unsparing and penetrating, clear-eyed, clinical—a word used often in association with Chekhov.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2017
• Lee has long since shown herself to be among the most penetrating literary biographers in English, and has been content, before now, to write only the lives of dead authors whose reputations are secure.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• Private insurers, who mostly have paid these bills without question, also are taking a more penetrating look at spending on the controversial lab work.
  — Fred Schulte, Philly.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Comey set up an unprecedented public challenge from someone of his stature to a sitting commander in chief, framing the most penetrating critique of Trump's White House yet from an establishment figure.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 16 Apr. 2018
• And Donovan's performance is made all the more emotionally penetrating by Joe's guardedness.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2019
• No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights than Samuel Moyn, a professor of law and history at Yale and one of the leading academic intellectuals at work today.
  — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• Coming out of the pandemic, most organizations are willing to conduct a more penetrating examination of conscience, identify their gaps, and then work to close those gaps.
  — Timothy R. Clark, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• Rieslings from Austria generally feel firmer, denser and more penetrating, while those from Alsace are altogether bigger and more voluminous.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 3 May 2018
• The penetrating documentary, which gets remarkable access to its subjects, is an honest, universal look at body issues and the navigation of relationships.
  — David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
• British companies understand that this dynamic allows the EU to wield a passive yet highly penetrating form of power to unilaterally transform global markets and shape corporate behavior.
  — Anu Bradford, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• Without offering a spoiler, the two plots reveal in their unlikely interconnectedness a penetrating portrait of Israeli society today.
  — Jessica Zack, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
• Beta radiation is more penetrating but still hugely attenuated by modest shielding.
  — Rupert Goodwins, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2017
• Politics, theater, literature, antiquarianism, fashion, warfare: Walpole’s letters—usually witty, often bitchy, sometimes wise, and very penetrating indeed—cover everything.
  — Brooke Allen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017

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