A nail penetrated the car tire.

A journey is a sort of door through which one comes out of reality as if to penetrate into an unexplored reality that looks like a dream.

When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."

Late in the autumn, when the weather was rough, windy, and wet, and the cold penetrated through the thickest clothing, especially at sea, a wretched boat went out to sea with only two men on board.

He penetrated her with a bottle.

The unicorn ran at the tree with all his might and penetrated the trunk so deeply with his horn that he couldn't pull it out and was thus stuck.

The sunshine penetrated the thick leaves of the trees.

The bullet penetrated his muscular chest.

The prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.

The cause of death was a deep stab in the left side, which must have penetrated the heart.