impermeable

Example Sentences

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Although scientists once believed that the placenta was a tight, impermeable barrier separating mother and child, that’s not true.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

Decades of rapid urban development have encased the city with impermeable concrete surfaces that hinder the natural drainage of water.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

It is the fantasy of an impermeable barrier that allows one’s purity to remain unsullied.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024

Prato demonstrated the method earlier this week outside the emergency department of Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, packing ice cubes inside an impermeable blue bag around a medical dummy representing a patient.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024

Those that come close suddenly change direction before hitting her glove, bouncing off as though she is surrounded by something invisible and impermeable.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern