Sample Sentences for
impervious
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    The pain of losing her, practically as a newlywed, had made him impervious to love all these years.  (source)
    impervious = incapable of being affected
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    I told him my stomach was impervious to cayenne pepper and most forms of grease,  (source)
    impervious = not capable of being hurt by
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    ...and under the pale night glow the playing fields swept away from me... They unrolled away impervious to me as though I were a roaming ghost, not only tonight but always, as though I had never played on them a hundred times, as though my feet had never touched them, as though my whole life at Devon had been a dream, or rather that everything at Devon, the playing fields, the gym, the water hole, and all the other buildings and all the people there were intensely real, wildly alive and totally meaningful, and I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything.  (source)
    impervious = not capable of being affected (by)
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    We're a double helix, tight and impervious.  (source)
    impervious = not capable of being affected; or not admitting passage through
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    She was one of those elderly "good sports" preserved by an imperviousness to experience and a good digestion into another generation.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    She babbled on, impervious.  (source)
    impervious = not capable of being affected
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    He takes up the saw again; again it moves up and down, in and out of that unhurried imperviousness as a piston moves in the oil;  (source)
    imperviousness = unaffected
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    Uncle Al gazes on, completely impervious.  (source)
    impervious = not capable of being affected
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    But Rosedale's natural imperviousness to hints made it easy for him to brush such resistance aside.†  (source)
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    When a patient didn't get better on standard therapy, a doctor should suspect that the tb was impervious to some drugs in the regimen and should find out which drugs as quickly as possible and substitute others.  (source)
    impervious = immune (not capable of being affected by)
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    And two people can indulge in imperviousness as well as in anything else.†  (source)
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    We led the busy eventless lives of three nuns in a barren and poverty-stricken convent: the walls we had were safe, impervious enough, even if it did not matter to the walls whether we ate or not.  (source)
    impervious = not permitting passage through (to those not allowed in)
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    The face looks deaf it has that vacant, posed imperviousness of all well-brought-up girls of the time.†  (source)
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