impermeable

Example Sentences

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“Europe needs to make itself impermeable to every interference” by outside powers, whether the U.S. or Russia, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

The program levies a property tax on impermeable surfaces to provide around $300 million a year in grants for municipal stormwater capture projects.

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

But it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the toughest membrane imaginable in the universe, opaque to probability, impermeable to death.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas