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porous
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  • The skin-contact layer's porous.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • ...how the eggs which it contained were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle;†  (source)
  • Her arms are heavy, sodden as porous wood after a storm.†  (source)
  • His nose was as porous and dark as volcanic rock.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Any porous surface.†  (source)
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