Sample Sentences forpermeable (auto-selected)
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Some of the eggs are permeable to skin oils. (source)permeable = allowing fluids or gases to pass through
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On the surface he's impermeable, except a scar above his left brow tells the truth . . . he's human. (source)impermeable = not allowing fluids or gases to pass through
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Most of my Arizona clothes were too permeable for Washington.† (source)
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He was lonely still, but it was only a mist, a weather front that passed through him when he was alone, a feeling of having turned too permeable.† (source)
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Although he had told me in large (though generally impenetrable) detail about the technical nature of his research (enzymes, ion transference, permeable membranes, etc., also the fetus of that miserable rabbit), he had never divulged to me—nor had I out of reticence asked—anything concerning the ultimate justification for this complex and, beyond doubt, profoundly challenging biological enterprise.† (source)
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In Burundi, social divisions had long been more complex and the barriers among them more permeable than in Rwanda.† (source)
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The substance of the wall seemed as permeable and yielding as light.† (source)
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They tie nkisis of leaves around their wrists and declare themselves impermeable to bullets, immune to death.† (source)
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The relatively flat boundary where warmer surface water met colder depth water was a semipermeable barrier which tended to reflect sound waves.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" in semipermeable means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
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We do not yet see that virtue is Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not.† (source)
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They are solid and impermeable.† (source)
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While Hank stood on the crumbling bank, giving an impassioned speech about the watershed protection group that he'd helped to organize, telling me about holding ponds, landscaped greenways, and the virtues of permeable parking lots covered in gravel, I lost track of his words.† (source)
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She was faultless, in her impermeable tight pink-and-white casing.† (source)
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They had been stripped—before or afterwards—only of those things that the local people needed: sheets of tin, lengths of pipe, bathtubs and sinks and lavatory bowls (impermeable vessels, useful for soaking cassava in).† (source)
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But it was hidden by a sheath as impermeable as Nicole's when they met and went together to a series of fittings.† (source)
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Specially treated to make it impermeable to gas.† (source)
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