impermeability
Example Sentences
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But there’s an impermeability to this woman’s demeanor that’s different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
“The reality is that there is some impermeability with young service members. They have a tough job, they put their lives on the line,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2021
We tested the weather impermeability of the exterior lights by plugging them in and sinking the strands of lights into a 3-gallon bucket of water.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2018
You roll your mind around enough in that stuff and gossamer becomes shellac, and your worldview hardens to the point of impermeability.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 2013
But it did not take her long to realize that he was as insensible to her begging as the colonel would have been, and that they were armored by the same impermeability of affection.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
