Sentence examples for penetrate us from inspiring English sources

Their father, meanwhile, was using his work as a consultant to penetrate US political and business circles.

- OK, so you didn't actually penetrate us but you got a bit touchy.

Partly to help penetrate US missile defences, China has in recent months also started putting multiple warheads on its largest missile, the DF-5, another development that has set alarm bells ringing in the Pentagon, where some analysts view it as the first step towards a massive nuclear armament drive aimed at obliterating the US arsenal.

But ultraviolet photons still don't have enough energy to penetrate us very deeply, so they only give us skin cancer.

On the other hand, as a Reconstructionist Jew, I am perpetually asking questions of our observances that seek to understand how these practices teach beyond the moment and penetrate us in multidimensional ways.

Gamma rays are so energetic that they can penetrate us, kill cells and cause cancer very easily, and in high exposures they cause radiation poisoning, which kills much more quickly by damaging our bone marrow and gastrointestinal tract.

Cyber-spies and hackers have also penetrated US air traffic control systems, the electrical grid and almost every federal agency network.

"One must not forget," Jean Cocteau once wrote, "that the pack of cigarettes, the ceremony that extracts them, lights the lighter, and that strange cloud which penetrates us and which our nostrils puff, have with powerful charms seduced and conquered the world".

"They didn't really threaten our goal a lot but there were moments when they could have penetrated us but didn't".

X-rays are sometimes stopped by our skin, but if we are bombarded by enough of them they can penetrate through us, a few of them being absorbed by skin and muscle, many more by our bones, which are denser, which is why we can use them to make images of the inside of our bodies.

And it's the dogma of George Lucas's Jedi, whose mystical Force "surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together".