Sample Sentences for
soluble
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soluble as in:  a soluble substance

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    "Sugar's awfully soluble," Quentin said, biting his thin lip.  (source)
    soluble = dissolvable in water
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    Some are concerned simply with planning the logistics of future wars; others devise larger and larger rocket bombs, more and more powerful explosives, and more and more impenetrable armor—plating; others search for new and deadlier gases, or for soluble poisons capable of being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents, or for breeds of disease germs immunized against all possible antibodies; others strive to produce a vehicle that shall bore its way…  (source)
    soluble = capable of being dissolved
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    Although Langdon knew the soluble ink of a watermark stylus could easily be wiped away, he could not imagine why Fache would erase evidence.  (source)
    soluble = capable of being removed with water
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    The Fugees' numbers had been written on the shirts in water-soluble ink, so as the game progressed, the numbers ran into blurry clouds on their sweat-soaked backs.  (source)
    soluble = capable of being dissolved in water
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    "That is very close to solubility," the AI pointed out.†  (source)
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    The satisfaction of one's needs—good food, cleanliness, and freedom—now that he was deprived of all this, seemed to Pierre to constitute perfect happiness; and the choice of occupation, that is, of his way of life—now that that was so restricted—seemed to him such an easy matter that he forgot that a superfluity of the comforts of life destroys all joy in satisfying one's needs, while great freedom in the choice of occupation—such freedom as his wealth, his education, and his social position had given him in his own life—is just what makes the choice of occupation insolubly difficult and destroys the desire and possibility of having an occupation.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insolubly means not and reverses the meaning of solubly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    In fact, the facility with which I shall arrive, or have arrived, at the solution of this mystery, is in the direct ratio of its apparent insolubility in the eyes of the police.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insolubility means not and reverses the meaning of solubility. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Nobody gives a four-year-old non-water-soluble paint.  (source)
    soluble = not capable of being removed with water
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    Her presence proved somehow less irreducible to soft particles than Ralph had expected in the natural perturbation of his sense of the perfect solubility of that of his cousin; for the correspondent of the Interviewer prompted mirth in him, and he had long since decided that the crescendo of mirth should be the flower of his declining days.†  (source)
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    He had to do it in three layers: first the muscle, then the fibrous tissue, then the skin, some seventy stitches in each layer, the inner two of them done with soluble thread.†  (source)
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    Is nail polish water-soluble?†  (source)
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    The capsule in which reposed the sodium cyanide (tiny granulated crystals as characterless as Bromo-Seltzer, said Nathan, and similarly water soluble, melting almost immediately, though not effervescent) was really quite small, a bit smaller than any medicinal capsule she had ever seen, and was also metallically reflective, so that as he held it inches above her face where she lay against the pillow—wiggling it between thumb and forefinger and causing the pinkish oblong to do a little midair pirouette—she could see shimmering along its surface the miniature conflagration which was only a captured image of the autumnal leaves outside, set afire by the sunset...Drowsily Sophie inhaled the odor†  (source)
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    They require some final refrigeration which I cannot give them, dabbling always in warm soluble words.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    The animals found the problem insoluble; in any case, they had little time for speculating on such things now.  (source)
    insoluble = not capable of being solved
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    It's an insoluble dilemma, really.  (source)
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