Sentence examples for were penetrating from inspiring English sources

By 1850 they were in Luvale and Lozi country and were penetrating the southern Congo forests.

Many of his criticisms of established ideas were pedantic and quibbling, but some were penetrating.

The pretext for the cartoon was a report that United States troops were penetrating the Arctic to counter a Russian threat.

Very few vehicles were penetrating the series of improvised barricades erected by Mr. Gbagbo's forces — a large garbage cart, old wooden tables and chairs, tires, concrete blocks.

The exhibition includes pieces of furniture like Eero Saarinen's 1948 womb chair and Isamu Noguchi's 1954 rocking stool, as examples of how the ideas of modern art were penetrating the American home.

"He just seemed to be like a pillow and these bullet holes were penetrating his torso," said Mr. Eisenberg, who was called as a witness by Myron Beldock, the Busch family's lawyer in their civil suit against the city and five officers.

The counterintelligence inquiry did not find evidence that government telephone systems were penetrated, the officials said.

Women said they were penetrated with guns, sticks, bottles and other objects.

Some were penetrated with spears, gun barrels, bottles or the stamens of banana trees.

Neither CNN.com nor CNNi.com were penetrated directly".

The electrodes were penetrated perpendicular to the cortex surface.