How to Use permeable in a Sentence

permeable

adjective

• The cell has a permeable membrane.
• The permeable pavers at the school, 4600 N. Oak Park Ave.
  — Taylor Hartz, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• To be soft and permeable like a sponge is to be healthy.
  — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
• The egg shell is permeable and air can pass into the egg.
  — Judy Buchenot, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2017
• The egg’s shell is semi-permeable, which means that over time, air can get in.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• One way to do that would be to use an electrical field to make the cells permeable.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• The outer parts of the fish must be permeable to allow the moisture to escape.
  — Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 30 July 2024
• The site estimates the cost of installing permeable pavers at $30 to $40 a square foot.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• The rock is permeable and covered with a fragile sandy-clay film.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• For many pathogens, the borders between species are as permeable as a sponge.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• The garden is low-water, while the pathways and the front driveway are permeable.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
• As such, our walls should feel permeable for anyone, not just our clients.
  — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 26 Dec. 2017
• The run rests on 12-inch-deep permeable pebbles so Richards can sweep and hose the path when necessary.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• Bone isn’t permeable to sound waves, so Forest plans to embed its device in the skull.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
• One area where the Stars shined against the Wild’s permeable defense was in transition.
  — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
• The palm of the hand is also one of the least permeable areas of the human body, which would reduce the rate of absorption into the body.
  — Robert Chilcott, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2020
• Wombs and homes, as permeable spaces, put the unborn and children at grave risk.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• There are also limits to how thick and permeable the suits can be, since a thicker suit helps trap air that gives jumpers more lift.
  — Kristen Gelineau, chicagotribune.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Fire itself can weaken or kill plants and make the soil less permeable, so rain is more likely to run off, not soak in.
  — New York Times, 29 Nov. 2021
• The building, which is next to a Cuyahoga County service yard, has front pavers and cubes that are permeable.
  — cleveland, 29 Sep. 2019
• The bags, like burritos the length of a football field, are semi-permeable, so water can flow out of it.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2022
• His fish was tucked safely in a black, water-permeable bag.
  — Kirk Deeter, Field & Stream, 5 Dec. 2020
• Their skin is permeable, so they’re more exposed to pollution in the soil and water.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
• Some are lethal, some are exploitative, some are permeable to love.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2022
• Images of the migrants wading across the Rio Grande in recent days are a reminder of how permeable the U.S. border can be.
  — USA Today, 24 Sep. 2021
• The protons flow through an electrolyte and a proton-permeable membrane to the cathode, while the electrons make the journey through a wire.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2018
• The Victory Park lot will be similar to the City Hall lots, which feature a permeable lot made up of brick pavers.
  — cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
• Cover the pipe with a water-permeable fabric to keep out dirt and a layer of gravel, then backfill the soil.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• The festival was more permeable to the innovations seen in our music scene.
  — Marcello Junior Dino, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2024
• To no one’s surprise, thin plastic bags are permeable, especially to something as unflinching as mould.
  — Melissa Kenny, refinery29.com, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024