Sentence examples for to turn impervious from inspiring English sources

These projects are part of an innovative green infrastructure program to turn impervious roofs, vacant lots and streets into spaces that soak up the rain and prevent water pollution.

There's a reason for that: as the Reuters report notes, grocery has proven relatively impervious to attempts to turn it into an online business thus far, mostly because of immense costs of keeping inventory on hand, factors like spoilage that don't affect other goods, and delivery complications (refrigerated trucks, for instance).

Green For All Academy Fellow, Katie Houstoun in Philadelphia spearheads a program aiming to turn one-third of the city's impervious asphalt surface into absorptive green spaces.

His approach to life was impervious to irony.

You have to basically be impervious to pain.

"I seem to be impervious but I'm not.

He seemed to be impervious to heat or cold.

The United Nations appears to be impervious to serious reform.

Members of Congress seem to be impervious to embarrassment.

So goannas would appear to be impervious to most threats.

Despite his concentration, it was impossible to remain impervious.