How to Use infiltrate in a Sentence
infiltrate
verb- Attempts to infiltrate undercover agents into the gang have failed.
- Water can easily infiltrate the soil.
- The gang was infiltrated by undercover agents.
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Did aliens come down and infiltrate stock traders' brains?
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 2 June 2020
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The first colder air mass will infiltrate the East over the next couple of days and into the weekend.
—Judson Jones, CNN, 17 Nov. 2021
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Bernard explains the meet was a set-up, an attempt to infiltrate her group.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 11 July 2022
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In this instance, a missed voice call on WhatsApp may have sufficed to open up the phone and infiltrate it.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 31 Oct. 2019
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To survive, their small queens infiltrate the colonies of other ant species and lay eggs there.
—Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
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Maybe predators will infiltrate the hen house, the ends of a fence don’t quite align or a mama will crush her litter.
—Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
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But, one of those friends has been infiltrating the Housewives group.
—Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2020
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His mission was to infiltrate the South and pilfer some of the region’s best players.
—Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 6 Feb. 2020
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The stormers and the anchor group had made it to the Ukrainian trenches on the ridge and were waiting to infiltrate Tabaivka.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
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That is the thing that turned me on to the idea that these companies have a huge amount of power and the ability to infiltrate the culture.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
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In cows, this type of bird flu seems to infiltrate the mammary system.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2024
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Catra and the Horde have sort of stepped up their game in a lot of ways and are finding new ways to infiltrate and break down the defenses of the Rebellion.
—Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2019
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Clouds start to infiltrate the area later in the day on Sunday but not before highs climb into the mid- to upper 50s.
—Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
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Eva, now suffering blackouts, gets a plea for help that leads her to infiltrate a club.
—Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2020
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The oily goop also sank more than 100 feet, infiltrating the Floridan Aquifer.
—Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
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It's set to feature the Skrulls, who've managed to use their shape-shifting powers to infiltrate Earth over years.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 17 May 2022
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In the movie, a hero assembles a team to infiltrate the casino overrun by zombies.
—Janet W. Lee, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
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The group, led by Thomas Rousseau, has been infiltrated and hacked several times.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
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It’s all painted a much brighter picture than the one that the many layoff posts infiltrating LinkedIn are painting.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
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Amid this tumult, Hamas had been planning to infiltrate Israel by land, air, and sea, and not just for a one-off attack.
—Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
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Comments June and Moira infiltrate Jezebel's disguised as Marthas, but things go south quickly when they're caught by a guardian.
—Matt Cabral, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Cooler air has infiltrated and highs mainly hang in the mid-50s.
—David Streit, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2020
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The sheer amount of effort to infiltrate one of the Sunburst victim firms is also a telling sign that this was not a mere criminal hack.
—Paulo Shakarian, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2020
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Law enforcement has been trying to infiltrate the group, which led to these arrests.
—Caroline Linton, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2020
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But hackers never stop finding new ways to infiltrate the store.
—Jacob Siegal, BGR, 1 Dec. 2021
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Holmes and her Pelling lab colleagues sterilized the crumbs, soaked them in nutrients, and allowed young cells to adhere to the crumbs and infiltrate the pores.
—Raleigh McElvery, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2021
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As Rob rises as the leader of a band of rebel outlaws, Marian infiltrates the power at court, as both work together to thwart royal corruption and bring peace to the land.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 1 July 2025
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