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  • It's against the rules, but the regulations are porous.
  • Charlie barks, scanning porous memory banks.†  (source)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • When it came to containing gossip, no walls in the world were as porous as those surrounding Vatican City.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • But the frame was the original porous stone used to build the manor.†  (source)
  • The wind rose, and his skin became as porous as his suit.†  (source)
  • 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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