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.
  • Did aliens come down and infiltrate stock traders' brains?
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 2 June 2020
  • 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
  • Bernard explains the meet was a set-up, an attempt to infiltrate her group.
    — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 11 July 2022
  • To survive, their small queens infiltrate the colonies of other ant species and lay eggs there.
    — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
  • But, one of those friends has been infiltrating the Housewives group.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • In cows, this type of bird flu seems to infiltrate the mammary system.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2024
  • 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
  • Eva, now suffering blackouts, gets a plea for help that leads her to infiltrate a club.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • In the movie, a hero assembles a team to infiltrate the casino overrun by zombies.
    — Janet W. Lee, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The group, led by Thomas Rousseau, has been infiltrated and hacked several times.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cooler air has infiltrated and highs mainly hang in the mid-50s.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • But hackers never stop finding new ways to infiltrate the store.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 1 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Suitable for use both morning and night, this foaming cleanser is nondrying but still is strong enough to infiltrate and clear pores.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • The rains altered the drainage above, and water infiltrated an ice wedge adjacent to the tunnel.
    — Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
  • The past few weeks have felt like a Cold War thriller in which an enemy agent somehow infiltrates the top of the United States government.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The past few weeks have felt like a Cold War thriller in which an enemy agent somehow infiltrates the top of the United States government.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Their task was to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2025
  • With all the innovation and fanfare around AI, there are some business functions that AI has been slower to infiltrate.
    — Danny Fields, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Police believe the driver was able to infiltrate the roadblock by following an ambulance that was attending to a person suffering a potential heart attack.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 28 May 2025

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