impermeable

How To Use impermeable In A Sentence

• This will render the topo impermeable, yet still allow you to write notes on it with a ballpoint pen.
• A knot of walkers wanders up the trail to Weeping Rock, where springs emerge from the base of cliffs at the contact point between porous Navajo sandstone and impermeable Kayenta shale.
• The sea snake's skin is impermeable to water but they can extract 20% of their oxygen needs through their skin from oxygen dissolved in seawater.
• As a tunnelling medium, the chalk was ideal: homogeneous, largely without fractures and nearly impermeable. CORMORANT
• Do health care workers really need a single fabric that is 100% impermeable to bloodborne viruses and bacteria to be used in every surgical procedure?
• Nine mighty aqua jets propel water at the user, who lies half-sunken into the thing, but conveniently separated from the water by an impermeable surface.
• Still, come the morning after Samhain, Caradoc was not to be found in the supposedly impermeable oubliette. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
• She may use a mental technique gymnasts are trained in: the art of erecting an impermeable wall after each passing moment.
• The layer of clay acts as an impermeable barrier against some chemicals.
• A permeable seed imbibes water readily when available, while an impermeable one does not take up water for days or longer.