How to Use pervasive in a Sentence
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The fear of running out of money is pervasive in the U.S.
—cleveland, 11 Apr. 2021
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Talk of the war, and the potential fate of Kyiv, was pervasive.
—New York Times, 8 Mar. 2022
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Still, the building feels huge, and the emptiness is pervasive.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
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Boser: The idea of learning styles, which is just pervasive.
—Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
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The songs, which are pervasive, and endless, are ear worms that are catchy as all get-out.
—Katie Walsh, idahostatesman, 18 Dec. 2017
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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
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In the gas that occupies the space between the stars, the hard stuff is almost all-pervasive.
—Alexander MacKinnon, Smithsonian, 28 July 2017
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And in the last decade, use of the algorithms has become pervasive.
—Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2016
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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
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That spirit of on-the-fly abandon was pervasive throughout the set.
—Chris Nashawaty, SI.com, 17 Apr. 2018
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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
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Of these, our smartphones are the most mundane, the most pervasive, and the least visible.
—Vanessa Chang, WIRED, 10 July 2019
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This is a pervasive opinion people have of pro athletes—and not even the worst one.
—Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 23 Apr. 2018
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This pervasive ambivalence seems to be the norm among my peers.
—Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 2 May 2017
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Just how pervasive are those sorts of attitudes around the sport these days?
—Howard Fendrich, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2021
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Take one of the most pervasive invasive plant species: The Bradford or Callery pear trees.
—Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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Take one of the most pervasive invasive plant species: The Bradford or Callery pear trees.
—Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
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In a country wracked by a drug war without end, death can feel pervasive.
—Oscar Lopez, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2021
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The poignancy of the play is pervasive, not depending on moments of high tragedy.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
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That would be at least 12 times more pervasive than today.
—Michael Harriot, The Root, 19 Apr. 2018
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The tech is here to stay, though, and will likely become ever-more pervasive.
—Time, 20 Jan. 2023
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White supremacy doesn’t need a hood and a torch to be pervasive in our everyday lives.
—Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 27 Oct. 2017
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But there was also a more pervasive sense of letting go.
—Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2020
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The pastor was intimately aware that the use of drugs was pervasive in town.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022
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The reform takes aim at a pervasive form of social media fraud.
—Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 11 July 2018
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The bias is so pervasive that some have turned to hiding their race from appraisers.
—TheWeek, 5 Sep. 2020
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The sense of unease, then and now, that executives need to make some big changes, and soon, in order to right the ship to future-proof their firms is pervasive.
—Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 July 2024
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In cities like New York, where there is always an occasion to dress up, dressing not only well, but with purpose, is pervasive among those who live here, including the transgender community.
—Nicky Josephine, Vogue, 30 June 2024
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