How to Use impervious in a Sentence

impervious

adjective

• And a virus that made the leap to DNA would have been impervious to their blades.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2020
• Both of these sets are impervious to the first four actions of the thief.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Oh, to be not like the swimmer, but like that lake: deep and impervious and with room for us all.
  — Lauren Markham, Longreads, 7 June 2018
• Staffers on the line seemed a bit brusque and impervious to eye contact.
  — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
• Don't believe that a dog's pads are impervious to the heat.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 19 Apr. 2018
• 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
• All around the Warriors are the fruits and roots of their winning culture—the work, the attitude, the impervious chill.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 3 July 2018
• James Bond serves as bodyguard to the daughter of a late friend and faces a villain who is impervious to pain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
• But loans aren’t impervious to much of the gloom weighing on markets.
  — Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2018
• The boundary was impervious on land, but murkier on water, way out in the sea.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
• Some are impervious to the sensory stress and run their race.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 May 2018
• Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
  — Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• 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
• These friends seem impervious to our polite entreaties for them to, well, wake up!
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 24 June 2020
• But the Ravens’ fast starts are seemingly impervious to long odds.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Kate isn't just impervious to the effects of alcohol, of course.
  — Marie Claire, 30 Mar. 2019
• 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
• In a few instances, these colonies were impervious to more than one antimicrobial drug.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2024
• The big picture: Urban heat islands (UHI) are caused by heat being trapped by impervious surfaces (e.g. roads, sidewalks, roofs), a lack of green space, and additional heat emitted by cars, industrial zones, and the like.
  — Anna Spiegel, Axios, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024