pervious

Example Sentences

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This hot, mineral-rich, and often smokey water seeks the most pervious path through the Earth's crust and encounters cold, oxygen-rich water at the sea floor.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2024

The company also expects an insurance margin in fiscal 2024 of 13.5%–15.5%, higher than the pervious year's margin of 12.6%.

From Reuters • Aug. 20, 2023

While there are pervious concrete options, Gile is not a fan.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2022

Reminisce about the Bluebonnet Bowl, the postseason game once played in the old Houston Astrodome that was the setting for the only pervious matchup of the Boilermakers and Volunteers in 1979.

From Fox News • Dec. 14, 2021

They are generally sunk in valley plains and districts where the lower pervious strata are bent into basin-shaped curves.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various