Sentence examples for the permeable from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or relating to substance, substrate, membrane or material that absorbs or allows the passage of fluids.
- Rainwater sinks through permeable rock to form an underground reservoir.
That aggrandisement is undermined by the permeable text.
The Wellcome has always been interested in the permeable membrane between art and science.
In it we feel concurrently the realm of ghosts and the permeable assurance of matter itself.
The precise shape that solidifies is controlled by light projections through the permeable window.
The lungs of the mice became more permeable, and the permeable lungs allowed other toxins to enter the pulmonary system.
The new US government seems to understand the permeable nature of the border, hence its talk of "Afpak".
The fluid dissolves or emulsifies the oil as it advances through the permeable reservoir.
Nor is the worry in recent years about nuclear material crossing the permeable Mexican border new.
It's a supreme example of Italian fantasia, a word whose meaning, John Hooper explains, "lies somewhere on the permeable frontier between imagination and creativity".
Among many other things, "W.M.R.C.T.T". is a sophisticated treatise on the permeable nature of film — that is, the complicated relationship between what's onscreen and what's offscreen.
Because of the permeable boundary between fact and fiction in Gloeckner's life, I find myself, at times, picking peculiar arguments with her.
