impermeable

Example Sentences

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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

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

It is the fantasy of an impermeable barrier that allows one’s purity to remain unsullied.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024

Prato demonstrated the method earlier this week outside the emergency department of Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, packing ice cubes inside an impermeable blue bag around a medical dummy representing a patient.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024

They tie nkisis of leaves around their wrists and declare themselves impermeable to bullets, immune to death.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver