Sentence examples for penetrate about from inspiring English sources

A move to Flushing would mean the Islanders would penetrate about 20 miles farther into Rangers territory.

The rivers draining the Kunlun Mountains penetrate about 60 to 120 miles (100 to 200 km) into the desert, gradually drying up in the sands.

Protons in the inner belt have energies in excess of 7 × 108 electron volts, enough to enable them to penetrate about 10 cm (4 inches) of lead.

The system, informally known as the "pain ray", works by producing a beam of short-wavelength microwaves that only penetrate about 0.4mm into the skin, rapidly heating the epidermis.

The probe was allowed to penetrate about 3 mm through the sample at 1 mm/s with trigger 5 g.

These galaxies are located in the direction of the constellation Virgo, and the radiation consists of particles called muons, which are so powerful they can penetrate about 2.5 kilometers of sea water or 900 meters of rock--enough to reach just about every living thing on Earth and damage its DNA.

By December 24 the German drive had narrowed but deepened, having penetrated about 65 miles into the Allied lines along a 20-mile front.

Women have probably penetrated about as far into the job market as they will go: since the early 1990s, their economic activity rate has risen only slightly.

The drill fell on Ms. Briesewitz, and the probe penetrated about an inch into her right eye socket, just missing her eyeball.

Nevertheless, backscattering electron microscopy and microfocus X-ray fluorescence confirmed that uranium had penetrated about 40 μm into the cement, implying active diffusion governed by slow dissolution-precipitation kinetics.

According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war through a network of sources on the ground, Isis fighters had penetrated about 100 metres into the eastern part of the town.