impermeable
Example Sentences
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"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
The program levies a property tax on impermeable surfaces to provide around $300 million a year in grants for municipal stormwater capture projects.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
"VasFluidics is quite different from the traditional fluidic systems. Channel walls of traditional devices are typically impermeable, and cannot work like real tissues to 'communicate' with fluids inside or outside the channel for fluid modulation."
From Science Daily • May 9, 2024
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
Vocabulary lists containing impermeable
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 32
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