How to Use pervasive in a Sentence

pervasive

adjective

• To the naked eye, the sport’s lily-white facade is deeply pervasive.
  — Essence, 17 Oct. 2024
• The songs, which are pervasive, and endless, are ear worms that are catchy as all get-out.
  — Katie Walsh, idahostatesman, 18 Dec. 2017
• And if the rot is pervasive, buy a new roof with a new car under it instead.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
• One of the most common and pervasive of these factors is stress.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• In a country wracked by a drug war without end, death can feel pervasive.
  — Oscar Lopez, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2021
• Just how pervasive are those sorts of attitudes around the sport these days?
  — Howard Fendrich, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2021
• But in a fresh cologne, these will be more pervasive and enduring.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 27 May 2026
• This pervasive ambivalence seems to be the norm among my peers.
  — Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 2 May 2017
• The smoke is low-key yet pervasive, adding structure to notes of pine needle and sap.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
• Some are pervasive, like the classical body or the naked body.
  — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
• There’s a pervasive thinking that bad things won’t happen to you.
  — Lavanya Ramanathan, Vox, 27 Sep. 2024
• Still, the building feels huge, and the emptiness is pervasive.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• The list shows just how pervasive AI has become in the field.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
• The sense of someone else having taken over the space is all too pervasive.
  — Katie Da Cunha Lewin september 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
• This is a pervasive opinion people have of pro athletes—and not even the worst one.
  — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The bias is so pervasive that some have turned to hiding their race from appraisers.
  — TheWeek, 5 Sep. 2020
• White supremacy doesn’t need a hood and a torch to be pervasive in our everyday lives.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 27 Oct. 2017
• The reform takes aim at a pervasive form of social media fraud.
  — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• For him, the most revolting thing about his life in Iran was its pervasive stink.
  — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026
• Talk of the war, and the potential fate of Kyiv, was pervasive.
  — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• The tech is here to stay, though, and will likely become ever-more pervasive.
  — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
• And in the last decade, use of the algorithms has become pervasive.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2016
• Because at the moment, the stench is pervasive.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
• That spirit of on-the-fly abandon was pervasive throughout the set.
  — Chris Nashawaty, SI.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Yet there doesn’t seem to be the same sense of pervasive dread that there was in the seventies and eighties.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• None more so than the pervasive and persistent issue of burnout.
  — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
• The lack of respect for legal norms, for the rule of law, also is present, even pervasive, in both men.
  — Andrew Cohen, Esquire, 25 Aug. 2017
• The pastor was intimately aware that the use of drugs was pervasive in town.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022
• In the gas that occupies the space between the stars, the hard stuff is almost all-pervasive.
  — Alexander MacKinnon, Smithsonian, 28 July 2017
• Lithium’s pervasive role comes despite the fact that our brains contain only a small amount of it.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025