Thesaurus / penetrable
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Probing Venus’ mountains — Science News, February 12, 1972Venus’ perpetually cloud-shrouded surface remains penetrable only by radio waves.
50 YEARS AGO, ARECIBO GOT AN UNPRECEDENTED VIEW OF VENUS’ SURFACEMARIA TEMMINGFEBRUARY 11, 2022SCIENCE NEWSA wholly penetrable surface—one might also call her—that she then attempted to reshape into language that was capable of penetrating the rest of us.
JOAN DIDION DIDN'T OFFER US ANSWERSLYNN STEGER STRONGDECEMBER 23, 2021TIMEThis is a case in which I need whatever it is I think or believe to be penetrable, if only for myself.
JOAN DIDION WROTE ABOUT GRIEF LIKE NO ONE ELSE COULDANNABEL GUTTERMANDECEMBER 23, 2021TIMEHere the fragments lay together, a mass of beams penetrable by the waves, but still breaking their force.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGOThis was the first time he had smarted in his penetrable part—the skin—and it made him very spiteful.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READEThe niche set apart for them to inhabit in our secret hearts is not penetrable by the lights and noises of common day.
TOLSTOY ON SHAKESPEARELEO TOLSTOYThe night filled with so much driving snow had become a kind of white gloom, less penetrable than the darkness.
THE HOSTS OF THE AIRJOSEPH A. ALTSHELERThe skin is, in some parts, so thick and hard as scarcely to be penetrable by the sharpest sabre, or even by a musket-ball.
THE BOOK OF CURIOSITIESI. PLATTSWith the Scoliae we come once again to a soft prey, with a skin penetrable by the sting no matter where it be attacked.
MORE HUNTING WASPSJ. HENRI FABREThe thoughtless objection about the only penetrable points is, I hope, swept aside forever.
MORE HUNTING WASPSJ. HENRI FABREWORDS RELATED TO PENETRABLE
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