impermeable
Example Sentences
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State officials estimated the costs at $4,100 per acre of paved or impermeable surface for those that decide to help fund local stormwater projects, and said the costs for other options could be considerably higher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
"We come to live in bubbles, impermeable to one another," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Although scientists once believed that the placenta was a tight, impermeable barrier separating mother and child, that’s not true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
Their technology involves pumping through fissures in the ground and squirting the carbon-rich material thousands of feet down, beneath a rock layer that should be impermeable for centuries.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
Those that come close suddenly change direction before hitting her glove, bouncing off as though she is surrounded by something invisible and impermeable.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Vocabulary lists containing impermeable
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 32
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