porous
Example Sentences
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These fibrils were then combined with potassium hydroxide and formed into porous beads measuring about half a centimeter to one centimeter in diameter.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
Congolese mining towns tend to be porous and migrant-heavy, rough, difficult places to live in some of the country’s roughest, most difficult areas, where there is plenty of reason to distrust outsiders.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
They’re porous defensively and have a boring, predictable offense largely consisting of alternating one-on-one isolations between their “Big Three” most every trip down the court.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026
"We've got to be more open and porous and respectful of different points of view."
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
He wore gray trousers and a shirt of porous cloth that did not hide his skeletal appearance.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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