impermeability
Example Sentences
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But there’s an impermeability to this woman’s demeanor that’s different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
“The reality is that there is some impermeability with young service members. They have a tough job, they put their lives on the line,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2021
It is one that is common to all those considered the finest defensive players of their generation: a sense of immutability and impermeability, that there is no way through and no way past.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
We tested the weather impermeability of the exterior lights by plugging them in and sinking the strands of lights into a 3-gallon bucket of water.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2018
But it did not take her long to realize that he was as insensible to her begging as the colonel would have been, and that they were armored by the same impermeability of affection.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
