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.
• To survive, their small queens infiltrate the colonies of other ant species and lay eggs there.
  — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
• 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
• Years later, amid a larger cowboy boot resurgence, Sample and Lemkin are poised to infiltrate street style with their take on the best leather boots.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Aug. 2023
• If the little suckers have already infiltrated, here’s one way to kill them.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 19 Apr. 2023
• Rainwater can infiltrate the city’s old, leaky pipes, only adding to the problem.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2023
• The attempt to infiltrate Varadarajan’s phone and install Pegasus, which took place on Oct. 16, failed, Amnesty found.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
• Members of the unit look, speak and dress as Arabs to infiltrate protests and conduct assassinations.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The discoveries show how the bogus parts have infiltrated planes from the United States to Australia.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• But many of the teachers with whom I’m acquainted haven’t been too concerned about the extent to which AI might infiltrate our classrooms until now.
  — WIRED, 28 June 2023
• It’s well documented that fentanyl has been infiltrating both powders and pills on the street for years.
  — Kate Linthicum, Keri Blakinger and Connor Sheets, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• Boston is the Eastern Conference’s top seed, while the Heat, currently in sixth, have their sights set on trying to infiltrate the top four.
  — Gary Pearson | Catena Media, oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2023
• Fast forward a decade or two, and flute samples began infiltrating hip-hop.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• Now, microplastics have infiltrated the world around us—at least 11 billion pounds of them sit on the ocean’s surface, writes Wired’s Matt Simon.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• Lemonade vendors infiltrated New York’s thriving street food scene—and some of them were pretty dodgy.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• The Army had at least one soldier acting as an informant, who had infiltrated the student body and was with the group that disappeared.
  — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• The suit, being waterproof (a standard for ski wear), prevents rain and snow from infiltrating.
  — Michelle Parente, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2024
• Why has shopping completely infiltrated, not just TikTok, but a lot of our video feeds?
  — Lauren Goode Michael Calore, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2024
• That's because, wait for it, a race of weird killer aliens have started infiltrating the school population.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
• But more than that, games and game-like trappings have gradually infiltrated many aspects of our lives.
  — Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• At a critical point during the protests, when the Supreme Court weighed in on the validity of the farm laws, the government told the justices that the protest had been infiltrated by Khalistanis.
  — Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
• There’s a certain sector that does not allow Black Twitter to be infiltrated.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2024
• The ocean is infiltrating drinking water in parts of New Orleans that draw from the Mississippi River.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• These microfibres infiltrate everything, from humans and animals to oceans, lakes, and even the air.
  — Marianne Lehnis, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• After infiltrating the city, the Suicide Squad has to defeat the superheroes and save Metropolis or Waller will blow up the bombs planted in their skulls.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Frigid temperatures stalk the homeless in the winter and bears infiltrate homeless encampments in the summer.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2023
• There have been several attempts by Russian spies to infiltrate the Legion, Mr. Yusov said.
  — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2023
• The film tells the story of an Irish mob boss who plants a spy within the Massachusetts State Police just as the police assign an undercover cop to infiltrate the gang.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024