How to Use porous in a Sentence

porous

adjective

• The country has a porous border.
• Much of the talk of the week had been about the Chiefs’ porous run defense.
  — Jeff Fedotin, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
• For most of the year, the Red Sox infield has been the most porous in baseball.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• Maltzan and Philbin worked hard to make the Hammer more open and porous, said Ryan.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• The right side of the line was porous and Garoppolo was sacked five times.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Nov. 2021
• The longer one lives, the more porous one’s mind becomes, the less reliable.
  — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• These weak points are porous and allow things like gas to pass through.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 Feb. 2022
• However, the border is porous and not all of the trade can be stopped.
  — Esha Mitra, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
• The mix is porous and fine, which is ideal for the small roots and shoots of microgreens.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
• Until the wall was built, the border between East and West Berlin was porous.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023
• That said, since cordierite is porous, like cast iron, it should never be washed with soap.
  — Rebecca Norris, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2023
• The hydrogel the researchers used as a stand-in for skin was soft and porous, enough so that the insects could smell the blood through it.
  — WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
• The clay is porous, and eventually, plain water in the pot will pick up notes from the leaves.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
• These tubes are porous, but the pores are so small that blood cells stay within the tubes and get pumped back into the patient.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2021
• The splash pad's soft, porous surface is suitable for the youngest children.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2022
• Hardges notes that creamy formulas (like this one) are a match for more porous hair.
  — Andrea Jordan, Good Housekeeping, 10 Feb. 2023
• But the offense did at least show a few signs of life against the Cardinals’ porous defense.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• The best way to shorten that decay time is to fill the room with as much soft, porous mass as possible.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• The porous clay traps steam while the bread is baking, yielding a crispy crust in a beautiful round shape.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2023
• It must be applied to flat, smooth surfaces that are non-porous.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 6 May 2021
• These cells cause the bones of the spine to become porous, allowing nerve fibers to fill the empty spaces.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• When porous substances land on a liquid, the pores fill with fluid.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
• The Spartans’ defense remains porous against the pass, as does the Buckeyes’.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2021
• The best way to shorten that decay time is to fill the room with as much soft, porous mass as possible.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 15 Sep. 2024
• Water sculpted the porous stone into caves over the course of millions of years.
  — Teresa De Miguel, Megan Janetsky, and Rodrigo Abd, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2024
• The porous core is then surrounded by a dense outer shell.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
• The air coming into those porous shells can cause the egg whites to change appearance.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2023
• And as the porous border costing the state of Texas and cities across the Rio Grande Valley millions of dollars each year.
  — Tyler Olson, Fox News, 17 June 2022
• It has been packed down throughout the cold months and needs to be agitated to be more porous.
  — Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2021
• They could be used in bandages that aid wound healing because the nanofiber mats are very porous.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jan 2025