Synonym: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrative, piercing, sharp. Similar words: penetrate, concentrating, rating, operating, perpetrate, generation gap, extracting, creating. Meaning: ['penɪtreɪtɪŋ] adj. 1. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions 2. tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing.
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31. Apart from E. cordifolius this is the only large species penetrating to the edge of the temperate zone.
32. The book offers some penetrating insights into how government works.
33. Any rain penetrating the roof covering is then expelled without entering the roof structure.
34. At their heart is the Cheddar Gorge and the famous show caves penetrating deep into the hills.
35. Nomatterwhat she did to distract herself, his dark penetrating eyes lingered in her memory as though they'd been branded there.
36. The climate change debate is now penetrating new business and industry constituencies.
37. They were the blackest, brightest, most penetrating eyes I ever saw....
38. Trying by cupping his hand over the clasps to avoid the penetrating clicks of opening, George lifted the lid.
39. This may act as a disincentive to penetrating other national markets.
40. I thought the going would be easy after penetrating the surface layers of soil and roots with spade and ax.
41. As a result, for the first time, national politics and consciousness are penetrating into virtually every Andean valley and hamlet.
42. The cello has a rich, penetrating sound throughout its range and is the most versatile of the stringed instruments.sentence dictionary
43. In a small orchestra two oboes would be too penetrating and reedy in tone, and two bassoons too thick.
44. A jammed hinge or latch can be freed with a penetrating oil such as Plus Gas.
45. None of these struck me as particularly penetrating answers to a thorny problem.
46. This time, the stares were even more penetrating when the guards looked up from my passport and auto papers.
47. He then answered the many penetrating questions put to him.
48. A pair of night birds circled above, the flapping of their wings and their eerie screeches penetrating the thickening mist.
49. Fish do not find worms that look like that and hooks lose so much of their penetrating power.
50. Gradual, steady penetrating pressure for approximately three minutes is ideal.
51. Local doses are often underestimated and plexiglass shielding converts some energy into penetrating gamma radiation.
52. Matron was equally dignified, with a towering cap of white linen and a penetrating gaze.
53. When long-life milk is packaged, it is sealed in aseptic boxes that prevent light and air from penetrating.
54. Instead he gave the Constitution and later the new republic the benefit of his penetrating mind and brilliant ability.
55. His penetrating run set up the Palace equaliser in the 1990 cup semi-final against scouse.
56. Bourdieu scores some penetrating insights into legal practice in his consideration of the forms of autonomy of the juridical field.
57. The woman scrutinized me from across the office, holding her penetrating gaze as I walked toward her.
58. Waking up to that penetrating ice-blue gaze was enough to throw anyone off balance for the rest of the day.
59. The home side enjoyed territorial advantage in the second period but never looked like penetrating a well organised Malone defence.
60. This penetrating study of a drunken drop-out, yearning for oblivion, is both ridiculously funny and painfully sad.
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