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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The porous surface of the karst stone helps water flow and gather under the rocks until it’s trapped.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
  • The biggest gap in the porous Louisville defense Saturday was in the middle of the floor, and Toppin was happy to fill it.
    Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The skipping between both sides of the looking glass will soon become porous.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • The air that's coming into those porous shells can cause the egg whites to change appearance.
    Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2022
  • The plastic seems slightly softer and more porous than the Rubbermaid Brilliance set, as it was slightly stained by tomato soup after being cleaned by hand.
    Lizzy Briskin, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Join 20 others in the comments View Comments Never wash produce with detergent or bleach, as the skin of some fruits and veggies are porous and could absorb these chemicals.
    Primrose Freestone, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024

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