How to Use permeability in a Sentence

permeability

noun

• One of the few ways that basement rocks can have high permeability is when there are faults that fracture the rock.
  — Emily Brodsky, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2018
• Then, too, there’s the permeability of the home kitchen — in which chef and diner are often the same person, and guests may come and go, and even help with the stirring and the tasting.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• The border between their time and ours has a gusty permeability.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
• Your fruits and vegetables are, though the permeability varies by type.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021
• On land, most of America’s crude is produced from shale reservoirs, which trap the oil in rocks with low permeability.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 1 May 2020
• Their permeability is crucial to the function of organs such as the kidney and liver.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2023
• The edifice itself is made of Aquia Creek sandstone that was painted white because of the risk posed by the permeability of the stone, which could cause cracking in colder months.
  — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 14 Jan. 2021
• The glowing gold stars are astrocytes: these cells control the permeability of the blood-brain barrier and are named for their starlike shape.
  — Liz Tormes, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
• In Notley’s hands, the free-roving speech of poets like O’Hara became a new way of exploring the permeability of identity on the page.
  — David Wallace, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2020
• Shale tends to have both low porosity and low permeability.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 25 May 2018
• That same permeability means wool pulls hot vapor off your skin and into the fibers themselves, while airflow keeps you from feeling clammy from sweat.
  — Outside Online, 5 Oct. 2022
• The rocks that are easiest to tap have both high porosity (meaning: big holes) and high permeability (holes that connect well to each other).
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 25 May 2018
• But, of course, if these high permeability faults are used for injection, the chances of having an earthquake skyrocket.
  — Emily Brodsky, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2018
• Josh Green’s account of the rise of Steve Bannon, is that Bannon understood both the importance and the permeability of the mainstream news media to his ideas and messaging.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Sep. 2017
• But the pleasure of these rooms is their permeability to the forest, which at night comes alive with grunting frogs, chirping insects, and the occasional bellow of a howler monkey.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2020
• Some of these fabrics use higher denier yarn for greater abrasion resistance along with an open weave structure for more air permeability and lighter weight.
  — Outside Online, 8 Jan. 2019
• Given that permeability, the financial temptation for pop stars to head to Nashville is clear.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2018
• The building's new metaphor is for clarity and permeability.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 22 July 2017
• Indeed, the vitality of Sherlock probably owes a lot to the permeability of Conan Doyle’s reality, lived on both sides of the page.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Like all great storytellers, Spielberg knows the value — the beauty — of artifice and embellishment, as well as the permeability of truth and fiction.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• Glover had attended a conference where a speaker described the low permeability of permafrost — ground that remains frozen for at least two years or, in some cases, thousands.
  — Chris Baraniuk- Knowable Magazine, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2022
• More studies are needed to determine how the T. reesei spores affect concrete's strength and permeability, as well as how long the spores can survive within concrete.
  — David Freeman /, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2018
• There is naturally some level of permeability in the membrane to allow for the flow of electrolytes, water, and nutrients into the bloodstream.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 19 Mar. 2019
• The better independent films are the ones where the filmmakers are aware of this permeability and build it into their working methods and their dramatic subjects.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
• This same change in permeability could also lead to the escape of radon which forms by radioactive decay of elements in certain minerals.
  — Everyday Einstein Sabrina Stierwalt, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2020
• Fashion goes on in an environment that is hyper-aware of the permeability of borders and the interconnectedness of us all.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020
• This permeability would be a recurring feature of his later work.
  — Nikil Saval, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• The microorganism colonises as the plant roots grow, which in turn leads to an increase in water permeability, aeration, and the availability of nutrients in the soil, leading to healthier crops and soils.
  — Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• By regulating the acidity of the skin, these microbes help to maintain a powerful permeability barrier that prevents water and electrolyte loss from the body—a requirement for life in terrestrial animals like us.
  — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
• That said, geological limitations—such as the right amounts of heat, water, and underground permeability—have largely restricted harvesting to shallow hydrothermal sources in areas such as Nevada’s Great Basin region.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 July 2023

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024