porous

Example Sentences

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Cozy as many of her columns appeared to be, they inhabited the porous divide between personal and political.

From The Wall Street Journal

As people age, bones naturally lose density and become more porous.

From Science Daily

Whether Reuben hit them directly or not, water was going to come at them from every one of those directions—plus down from the clouds and up through the porous limestone underneath the city.

From Literature

As the samples heated, silver atoms moved into the surface of the electrolyte, replacing smaller lithium atoms within the porous crystal structure.

From Science Daily

We’ve already seen how porous the line is between shortcuts deemed clever and those dismissed as lazy, often determined less by effort than by packaging.

From Salon