permeable
Example Sentences
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Their improvements made the protist's cell walls permeable, allowing scientists to clearly observe its inner architecture for the first time.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025
Imagine streets and sidewalks with healthy tree canopies, permeable paving, and green infrastructure that captures rainwater for recharge or reuse, so it enters the water table instead of being directed to our channelized rivers.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
The idea that our constitutional order could work without having somewhat permeable lines between those, I think, isn’t realistic, especially in a modern world.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025
What’s under examination is the strange permeable barrier between life and death, and the way it appears to those who are left behind to deal with the fallout.
From New York Times • May 30, 2024
Most of my Arizona clothes were too permeable for Washington.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
Vocabulary lists containing permeable
Cell Biology - Middle School
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Life Science: Cell Biology
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The Water Cycle - Introductory
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