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Meanings of penetrative in English
Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
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Examples for "sharp"
Examples for "sharp"
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The new measures follow a sharp increase in cases in recent days.
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Hard; sheep or goat; blue-veined; sharp; tangy; from Tigne Valley in Savoy.
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Semisoft; white; creamy; sharp; historic since the time of the Merovingian kings.
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Late yesterday, the recent sharp volatility of the New York market continued.
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Local media have reported sharp divisions within the government on the issue.
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Given the opportunity, and state government intentions, they're keen to encourage visitors.
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Europe in particular will be keen to near-source as much as possible.
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He said companies were extremely keen to take on the new technology.
4
Our group is really keen to challenge themselves and accept the challenge.
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Of course I am. The Nationals' coalition partners are certainly not keen.
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However, he rejected suggestions that the problem was particularly acute in Westmeath.
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Main outcome measure: Two year survival after onset of acute lung injury.
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He said water and sanitation needs remained acute for many affected villages.
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Reuters reported last week that the problem is particularly acute in Belize.
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North Korea battles acute food shortages even in years with good harvests.
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A piercing chill grew in the dead air; the silence was terrifying.
2
The trees break the wind that is so piercing in the clearings.
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For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented.
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Suddenly I had a clear and piercing thought that supplanted every imagining.
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It blew upon them in cruel menace of conquest, in piercing inclemency.
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He felt good; he had never enjoyed penetrating a woman so much.
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Gamma radiation is the most penetrating and energetic form of nuclear radiation.
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She gave them a penetrating look and came all the way in.
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He can't find a way of penetrating the system as it stands.
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Evelyn grew more interested; the rite was full of a penetrating mystery.
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However, the railway denied today that it was discriminating against its workers.
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Opposition politicians have criticised the government for discriminating against Israel's non-Jewish minorities.
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Religious employers will also be more restricted in discriminating on religious grounds.
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Results: The nomogram was developed and found to be accurate and discriminating.
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A more discriminating therapy was needed, especially for cancers that were nonlocalized.
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Acute in thought and incisive in speech, he is a fluent talker.
2
It was resonant, far-reaching, incisive; but it rang abruptly and without mellowness.
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His utterance was incisive; his voice, eager and quick, filled the room.
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The diffident girl had suddenly assumed the incisive strength of observant womanhood.
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I'm sure that it was rather perceptive and incisive, whatever it was.
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He reached in, and his hand emerged with a knifelike letter opener.
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Here she cached all of her treasure except a single knifelike sliver.
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With age, her delicate beauty had hardened into something knifelike and more defining.
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Beside another lamp was a knifelike object, carved out of bone.
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The flame guttered and rose to a knifelike orange point.
Usage of penetrative in English
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That trio form also provide a penetrative and versatile pace bowling attack.
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It's a deep, penetrative cold, but perhaps you get used to it.
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On the flipside, most men achieve orgasm and ejaculation with penetrative sex.
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Her comments on people were saltily satiric and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies.
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Verily, this is from the penetrative power of the Word of God!
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The pleading was crafty, and it was penetrative in the avoidance of stress.
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No-one in my family has had actual, traditional, penetrative sex in seven generations.
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Shaqiri's arrival added another penetrative player to Liverpool's attack and that was decisive.
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The penetrative power of the divine bounty is not fully manifest.
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Thus calpeptin was found to be a useful cell-penetrative calpain inhibitor.
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The other physically penetrative attacks were already deep inside the ship.
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He built solidly against the penetrative sand, and as high as his head.
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You cannot have penetrative sex but you can still enjoy them.'
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He apologised for earlier denying he had penetrative sex with her.
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I had boyfriends, but always drew the line at penetrative sex.
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Evelyn's keen and penetrative eye would have taken in the situation at a glance.
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