Sample Sentences forporous (auto-selected)
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Charlie barks, scanning porous memory banks.† (source)
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She walks carefully because she's always had the sense that there are holes everywhere, cracks you can slip between— the world, after all, is porous.† (source)
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Most of Saladin's operatives had infiltrated the country from abroad through the porous American visa and immigration system.† (source)
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The skin-contact layer's porous.† (source)
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I feel I even walk like that: crouched over, my spine constricting to a question mark, my bones leached of calcium and porous as limestone.† (source)
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But the border was porous-always had been-and Laila knew that thousands of Afghans were still crossing into Pakistan either with bribes or by proving humanitarian grounds-and there were always smugglers who could be hired.† (source)
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There was no trail at all, and we picked our way between and over the rumpled slabs of porous black rock.† (source)
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On Claremont Avenue I came closest to the headiness, dizziness, porousness of my days with Prakash.† (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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You see, they're Savannah gray bricks, which are larger and more porous than ordinary bricks, and they have a very soft and beautiful color.† (source)
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I mean its extreme porousness, considered independently by the worm-eaten condition which is a consequence of navigation in these seas, and apart from the rottenness attendant upon age.† (source)
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And it also seems to me, although this is probably an idle fantasy, that the statue is growing more sharply etched, as if, instead of weathering itself into a porous mass, it is hardening on the hillside with each snowfall, perfecting itself.† (source)
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...how the eggs which it contained were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle;† (source)
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Her arms are heavy, sodden as porous wood after a storm.† (source)
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His nose was as porous and dark as volcanic rock.† (source)
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He believed, at thirteen, that the border between himself and the world was thin and porous enough to allow him to affect the course of events.† (source)
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Any porous surface.† (source)
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