How to Use impermeable in a Sentence

impermeable

adjective
Definition of impermeablenext
Synonyms for impermeablenext
  • Once the holes are clogged, the net is impermeable to the wind, Boreyko said.
    — Elise Takahama, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The gray is asphalt and concrete, all impermeable to rain and snowmelt.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The chain, so impermeable for so long, would have been broken.
    — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The first piece of the ensemble is a long impermeable trench coat made from recycled blue tarp.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 3 June 2021
  • Restoring areas of impermeable surfaces is one of the ways this takes place.
    — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Aug. 2019
  • These tires stay inflated with the help of a layer in the tire casing or a liquid sealant that’s added to make the rubber impermeable to air flow.
    — Popular Mechanics Test Team, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2020
  • The Madison formation is capped by a thick layer of impermeable rock, so the CO₂ wouldn’t be able to escape.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Miles is a Brit, from the fringe of Birmingham, with an accent of impermeable glumness.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Stamped from steel, these things are robust and impermeable.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 14 May 2021
  • Its goal: prove that the sandstone layers can hold carbon, and that the cap rock just above them is impermeable enough to keep it from escaping.
    — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The cap could include hard paved courts, a parking area and playgrounds built on impermeable surfaces.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
  • But wrap that same cucumber in an impermeable plastic sleeve and the decay slows down.
    — National Geographic, 22 Apr. 2019
  • The rainwater rolls off the city’s hard, impermeable surfaces, rather than sinking into the ground.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Tons of waste was exhumed and relocated and an impermeable layer of clay and fabric capped the site.
    — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The gel topcoat is a tough nearly impermeable layer that seals the color in place—that’s why gel manicures are able to last for weeks instead of days.
    — Alexis Bennett, SELF, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Wrap fish tightly with cloth to make an impermeable bundle, making sure to use just enough layers to keep cure from leaking out.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 2 July 2021
  • Salt domes, formed when a mass of salt is forced upward, are a good choice for storage since salt is impermeable and has low solubility in crude oil.
    — Scott L. Montgomery, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2021
  • If the pandemic has shown us anything about work life and home life, it’s that the two aren’t separate spheres, divided by an impermeable wall.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The soil mix wall acts as an impermeable barrier where water and pollutants cannot pass through.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Hopefully over time that grows more and more impermeable.
    — Dan Hyman, GQ, 12 June 2017
  • Officials said the debris would be put into dumpsters lined with impermeable plastic, then wrapped up and sealed with glue.
    — Audrey McAvoy The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Amid the layers of yellow and blue impermeable cloth and sea green latex, there was a large swath of exposed skin extending from just below my chin to my collar bones.
    — Pauline W. Chen, New York Times, 8 May 2020
  • Once closer to the surface, the hot water often ran into a cap of impermeable volcanic deposits.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The spots were evidence that the skin that was growing back was growing thicker, more impermeable with every passing week, as a heart is perhaps not.
    — Bindu Bansinath, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2020
  • That suggested the volcanic rocks inside the seamount were also rich in water, trapped by an impermeable cap, the team concluded.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 21 June 2023
  • Next, cover the affected ground with impermeable plastic to solarize the roots and deprive them of sun and water.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Special, impermeable tape that seals a metal or carbon-fiber rim bed against air loss, especially around the spoke holes.
    — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 28 July 2020
  • The boundaries that bureaucrats erect are of course not impermeable, and sometimes the professional mask drops.
    — Bernardo Zacka, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The ocean is big, deep and impermeable to the laser altimeter that made mapping our less watery neighbor planets possible.
    — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 13 July 2017
  • That’s thanks in large part to Vessi’s Dyma-tex knit, which weaves in tiny air pockets that manages the contradiction of a shoe that is both impermeable and somewhat breathable.
    — Noah Kaufman, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2020

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