Penetrating in a sentence as an adjective

That's not a penetrating wound to your chest you're feeling.

The smell is so penetrating it feels like you can smell it through your eyeballs.

Knife and gunshot wounds really just means penetrating trauma.

If you recognize something on the resume, ask them some penetrating questions and dig into what they know.

I get compromising and penetrating the networks of rival countries.

The staffers did so anyway, and now are "penetrating" the firewall that didn't even exist except on paper.

Much like security, you pick your countermeasures in advance in the hopes of raising the cost of an attacker to penetrating your security.

Experimenters shouldn't get their hopes up too far: Some forms of radiation are extremely penetrating/hard to shield, and some hazardous isotopes live a long, long time.

On multivariate analysis, uninsured patients had an increased odds of death than insured patients, in both penetrating and blunt trauma patients.

As I said, gamma radiation is highly penetrating and heavily ionizing, which means that it damages delicate materials quite easily.

"..all US airports scanners equipped with the ability to produce the penetrating images will now only show a generic outline of a passenger to the operator.

A hard real-time system is one which is unusable if it fails to meet a deadline even once; a jet engine control system, say, where failing to meet a deadline could result in engine parts penetrating the fuselage.

Upvoted because the interviewer asked penetrating informed questions.

My tldr is: magnetometer and ground penetrating radar indicate more stonehengy stuff under stonehenge; researchers need more money to dig and find out more; previous researchers have ruined the area in the middle by digging.

But, particularly when money is plentiful and financial markets are rising, “the rate of embezzlement grows, the rate of discovery falls off and the bezzle increases rapidly.” It is only after the market falls and “audits are penetrating and meticulous” that much of this chicanery is uncovered.

Penetrating definitions

adjective

having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"

See also: acute discriminating incisive keen knifelike penetrative piercing sharp

adjective

tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing; "a toxic penetrative spray applied to the surface"; "a cold penetrating wind"; "a penetrating odor"

See also: penetrative