porousin a sentence
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the partly porous walls of our digestive systemporous = allowing passage through a barrier
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compacting the soil to make it less porous
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our unfenced and largely unpoliced borders have proven porous
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It's against the rules, but the regulations are porous.
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Charlie barks, scanning porous memory banks.† (source)
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Folly, but I wanted to participate — snow is so attractive, until it gets porous and sooty.† (source)
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The entire island seemed porous with hydrium.† (source)porous = allowing passage through a barrier
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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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When it came to containing gossip, no walls in the world were as porous as those surrounding Vatican City.† (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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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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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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Blinking through the rain, he fingered the dog tags, then scrambled backward wildly into a porous wall of stringy vines that hung from a massive banyan tree.† (source)
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But the frame was the original porous stone used to build the manor.† (source)
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The wind rose, and his skin became as porous as his suit.† (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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