How to Use pervasive in a Sentence

pervasive

adjective

• The fear of running out of money is pervasive in the U.S.
  — cleveland, 11 Apr. 2021
• Talk of the war, and the potential fate of Kyiv, was pervasive.
  — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• Still, the building feels huge, and the emptiness is pervasive.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• Boser: The idea of learning styles, which is just pervasive.
  — Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
• The songs, which are pervasive, and endless, are ear worms that are catchy as all get-out.
  — Katie Walsh, idahostatesman, 18 Dec. 2017
• Yet there doesn’t seem to be the same sense of pervasive dread that there was in the seventies and eighties.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• In the gas that occupies the space between the stars, the hard stuff is almost all-pervasive.
  — Alexander MacKinnon, Smithsonian, 28 July 2017
• And in the last decade, use of the algorithms has become pervasive.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2016
• And if the rot is pervasive, buy a new roof with a new car under it instead.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
• One of the most common and pervasive of these factors is stress.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• That spirit of on-the-fly abandon was pervasive throughout the set.
  — Chris Nashawaty, SI.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The lack of respect for legal norms, for the rule of law, also is present, even pervasive, in both men.
  — Andrew Cohen, Esquire, 25 Aug. 2017
• Of these, our smartphones are the most mundane, the most pervasive, and the least visible.
  — Vanessa Chang, WIRED, 10 July 2019
• This is a pervasive opinion people have of pro athletes—and not even the worst one.
  — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• This pervasive ambivalence seems to be the norm among my peers.
  — Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 2 May 2017
• Just how pervasive are those sorts of attitudes around the sport these days?
  — Howard Fendrich, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2021
• Take one of the most pervasive invasive plant species: The Bradford or Callery pear trees.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• In the longer-term, the effects could be far deeper and more pervasive across a range of asset classes.
  — Mike Bird, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
• There are lessons here about the pull of the past and the ethics of mutual care, but most of all there is a pervasive warmth, like the sun stretching through April’s thin clouds.
  — Jacob Brogan, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
• Take one of the most pervasive invasive plant species: The Bradford or Callery pear trees.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
• In a country wracked by a drug war without end, death can feel pervasive.
  — Oscar Lopez, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2021
• The poignancy of the play is pervasive, not depending on moments of high tragedy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• That would be at least 12 times more pervasive than today.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 19 Apr. 2018
• The tech is here to stay, though, and will likely become ever-more pervasive.
  — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
• White supremacy doesn’t need a hood and a torch to be pervasive in our everyday lives.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 27 Oct. 2017
• But there was also a more pervasive sense of letting go.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2020
• The pastor was intimately aware that the use of drugs was pervasive in town.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022
• The reform takes aim at a pervasive form of social media fraud.
  — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• There’s a pervasive thinking that bad things won’t happen to you.
  — Lavanya Ramanathan, Vox, 27 Sep. 2024
• That issue is a pervasive crisis of thinking—or a lack of thinking.
  — Sam Rockwell, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024