impermeable
Example Sentences
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Rain watered crops, and soaked in to recharge the groundwater that hydrated the city — something that can’t happen now, when something like 40% of the city is covered over, impermeable to rain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"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
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
They tie nkisis of leaves around their wrists and declare themselves impermeable to bullets, immune to death.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing impermeable
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 32
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Challenge, List 12
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