How to use "penetrate" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "penetrate" in popular movie and book plots

  • The storm manages to penetrate the station and destroys the main computer core, wiping out the crucial stores of data.  - The Lights of Zetar
  • The women kill most of the patrons there, and use a gun to anally penetrate the racist man, finally shooting him.  - Baise-moi
  • This ex-con is able to penetrate to the roof the factory, but is caught, leaving the suitcase on the roof.  - À Nous la Liberté
  • In Tomb of Horrors, the adventurers encounter a number of tricks and traps while attempting to penetrate the tomb of a dead wizard.  - Tomb of Horrors
  • However, the shots do not penetrate the hide, and the creature closes in.  - Relic (novel)
  • With time running short, a combined Away Team is able to penetrate the shields protecting the complex and rescue Kim and Torres.  - Caretaker (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • The British warship is ambushed by Acheron; Surprise is heavily damaged, while its own cannon fire does not penetrate the enemy ship's hull.  - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  • Warlocks penetrate computers around the world for personal profit or curiosity.  - True Names
  • When he comes across live fish in a stream, Hobson concludes that the Effect did not penetrate water.  - The Quiet Earth
  • During construction on the London Underground, workers penetrate an underground cave.  - Reign of Fire (film)
  • Zardoz's aim was to breed a superman who would penetrate the Vortex and save mankind from its hopelessly stagnant status quo.  - Zardoz
  • Nick knew a handgun bullet would not have the power to penetrate as far into Berton's body as the real one went.  - The Thin Man Goes Home
  • Arregui allows Molina to penetrate some of his defensive self and opens up.  - Kiss of the Spider Woman (film)
  • The Anti-Monitor tries to use an antimatter cannon to penetrate the limbo universe and destroy the five partially merged Earths.  - Crisis on Infinite Earths
  • She is perceptive enough to penetrate Nick's adopted persona, deeply disturbing him even though she fascinates him.  - The Shockwave Rider
  • It falls upon Bitterman to penetrate the Strogg capital city alone and assassinate the Strogg leader, the Makron.  - Quake II

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