impermeable

Example Sentences

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"We come to live in bubbles, impermeable to one another," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

One of the reed-covered mounds was located directly above a point where freshwater was rising through a break in the impermeable layer beneath the lake.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

“Europe needs to make itself impermeable to every interference” by outside powers, whether the U.S. or Russia, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Municipal wells typically draw drinking water from hundreds of feet underground, often tapping into aquifers that lie beneath impermeable clay and silt layers called aquitards.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

But it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the toughest membrane imaginable in the universe, opaque to probability, impermeable to death.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas