How to Use penetrable in a Sentence

penetrable

adjective

• Key Talking Point Norwich started the half well, but the defence began to look penetrable as soon as the hosts began warmed to the task.
  — SI.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• But that fortress was more easily penetrable last year as Salt Lake went just 3-4-3.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
• This may make sense for the prizes in the sciences and social sciences, since those fields are less than penetrable to anyone but fellow practitioners.
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
• Clippers defense suffers In two of the three exhibition games the Clippers have lost, their defense has been too penetrable.
  — Broderick Turner, latimes.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• But advantages of aluminum over heavy and frequently penetrable wooden boats were many, and the shiny metal craft caught on quickly.
  — Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
• Here, the workspace was elevated to art, and the boundaries between student and professional, between product and process, between the child and adult worlds blurred, and were made penetrable.
  — Kirstin Valdez Quade, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
• Anyway, that a college bubble, always penetrable, solves all is hard to embrace.
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 8 Aug. 2020
• The most concerning thing as far as Wolves fans are concerned is that their usually reliable defence looked shaky and penetrable.
  — SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• In these photographs, though, borders are fragile, penetrable, thin as gauze.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2018
• And like the Flamingo, which is not a solid mass but penetrable so pedestrians can walk through it, Calatrava’s piece will invite interaction.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
• At 35 years old and after all these years in tennis, Roger Federer has improbably improved in a way that used to seem impossible: His backhand, once pretty but penetrable, is now deadly.
  — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2017
• But the Taliban have proven how penetrable Kabul is to them in the past week, by assassinating government spokesmen, a local official and even prison prosecutors.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• However, the common denominator among both performances was that Simeone's men conceded twice and the defence looked penetrable.
  — SI.com, 21 Sep. 2019

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