How to Use impervious in a Sentence

impervious

adjective

• These friends seem impervious to our polite entreaties for them to, well, wake up!
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 24 June 2020
• Is thick cloth more impervious to airborne viruses…or...
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2020
• And Britain is not impervious to an emerging market-style currency crisis, if history is any guide.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 10 July 2020
• The Fed action has also not made credit markets completely impervious to a complex and fast-changing outlook.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 29 June 2020
• That's okay, though, because Chevy engineers designed their car to be impervious to both rain water and carwash stupidity.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 25 Mar. 2020
• But though that program is the department’s profit center, and the virus has yet to be contained, Tyra continues to appear impervious to pressure.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 8 July 2020
• But right now, the voting bases of the two parties are canceling each other out rather neatly, and that has helped keep the contest in Wisconsin close and impervious to major swings.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2020
• The impunity woven into the fabric of the nature of American policing has proved impervious to reform.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 9 June 2020
• Seen on screens within the screen, the CEOs seemed impervious to lawmaker interrogation.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
• And a virus that made the leap to DNA would have been impervious to their blades.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2020
• None of us are impervious to change, and in many ways, that’s a good thing.
  — Ariel Cheung, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2022
• The brand is an ocean, ebbing and flowing, impervious to the rest of the fashion world.
  — Jon Caramanica, Town & Country, 28 Feb. 2023
• And there are very few things in life that are impervious to time’s erosion.
  — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• The Fed seems to have been impervious to all of that criticism.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
• The polls have had Mr. Biden leading for the past 12 months, almost impervious to events.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• Many who chose not to vote remained impervious to the ads from Caruso and all the others.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
• The boundary was impervious on land, but murkier on water, way out in the sea.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
• As with all things that go up like a rocket, crypto wasn’t impervious to an IRL crash.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022
• In lieu of a sparkly crackle, the pale loaf of bread sat mute, impervious to his coaxing and squeezing.
  — Vivian Song, CNN, 14 July 2021
• Thus far, Manchin has shown himself to be impervious to pressure from the White House, if not prickly about it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• The one realm of American life that has shown itself impervious to Trump’s assault on truth is the courts.
  — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
• Because of that, the show is seemingly impervious to new cast members that don’t come in through dating one of the main cast.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 May 2024
• But the Fountain has not been impervious to the storm of post-pandemic challenges.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• That first rose, like those that followed, is impervious to bugs and black spot, blooms from last to first frost, is winter hardy and is self-cleaning.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2021
• Snowden said the delta variant wiped out any notion that children are impervious to the virus.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2021
• But what does that concept mean when the powerful are impervious to truth telling?
  — Michael Bennett, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
• The British monarchy is one of the most impervious institutions of the modern world.
  — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• Some of them can be injured and then get back up, while others are impervious to any harm short of a serious head wound.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
• So right at opening time, Bungalow saves a few tables for the lone style of dining impervious to this madness: walk-ins.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 1 July 2024
• The vessel’s onboard defense systems and ability to operate from more than 60 miles off Ukraine’s coast seemed to make the Moskva, Russia’s third-largest active warship, virtually impervious to attack.
  — Brian Glyn Williams, The Conversation, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024