impermeable
Example Sentences
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"We come to live in bubbles, impermeable to one another," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
“Europe needs to make itself impermeable to every interference” by outside powers, whether the U.S. or Russia, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
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
Their technology involves pumping through fissures in the ground and squirting the carbon-rich material thousands of feet down, beneath a rock layer that should be impermeable for centuries.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 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
Vocabulary lists containing impermeable
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 32
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