How to Use infiltrate in a Sentence

infiltrate

verb
Definition of infiltratenext
Synonyms for infiltratenext
  • Attempts to infiltrate undercover agents into the gang have failed.
  • Makeup has already infiltrated the skin care sphere with hybrid skin tints.
    — Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 7 July 2024
  • The danger arises if a hacker is able to infiltrate a network and gain at least partial access.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 9 July 2024
  • Don’t let an emotional matter infiltrate into other aspects of your life.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 23 July 2024
  • And because fentanyl and xylazine have infiltrated street drugs, providing kits to test for the presence of those substances, can save lives.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2024
  • One night, two parents, out of options, infiltrate a top-level dealer and pimp’s apartment complex to rescue their teenage daughter.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The invasive pest has infiltrated nearly 60 percent of the native range of black ash, a recent study found.
    — Gaby Vinick, ABC News, 13 May 2024
  • But Jacob’s real goal is to infiltrate his boss’ villa to steal his transformative new invention.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2024
  • Last year, over 42 million acres were torched, driving massive plumes of smoke that infiltrated the United States.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 18 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
  • Mussels clog machinery and pipelines and have disrupted water flow and threatened to infiltrate everything from agricultural canals to power plants.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2024
  • As a means of achieving recognition within the Falange, Román infiltrated unions and left-wing groups to provide information to his actual party.
    — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • To survive, their small queens infiltrate the colonies of other ant species and lay eggs there.
    — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
  • In cows, this type of bird flu seems to infiltrate the mammary system.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 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
  • 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
  • If the little suckers have already infiltrated, here’s one way to kill them.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 19 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The discoveries show how the bogus parts have infiltrated planes from the United States to Australia.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But many of the teachers with whom I’m acquainted haven’t been too concerned about the extent to which AI might infiltrate our classrooms until now.
    — WIRED, 28 June 2023
  • It’s well documented that fentanyl has been infiltrating both powders and pills on the street for years.
    — Kate Linthicum, Keri Blakinger and Connor Sheets, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
  • Boston is the Eastern Conference’s top seed, while the Heat, currently in sixth, have their sights set on trying to infiltrate the top four.
    — Gary Pearson | Catena Media, oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Fast forward a decade or two, and flute samples began infiltrating hip-hop.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Now, microplastics have infiltrated the world around us—at least 11 billion pounds of them sit on the ocean’s surface, writes Wired’s Matt Simon.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Lemonade vendors infiltrated New York’s thriving street food scene—and some of them were pretty dodgy.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The Army had at least one soldier acting as an informant, who had infiltrated the student body and was with the group that disappeared.
    — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The suit, being waterproof (a standard for ski wear), prevents rain and snow from infiltrating.
    — Michelle Parente, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2024

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