How to Use impervious in a Sentence

impervious

adjective
  • This plant can grow as tall as eight feet and is impervious to drought.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 14 Mar. 2026
  • None of us are impervious to change, and in many ways, that’s a good thing.
    — Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2022
  • None of us are impervious to change, and in many ways, that’s a good thing.
    — Ariel Cheung, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2022
  • Both of these sets are impervious to the first four actions of the thief.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Staffers on the line seemed a bit brusque and impervious to eye contact.
    — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
  • And there are very few things in life that are impervious to time’s erosion.
    — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Trump seemed then, and still seems now, quite impervious to either.
    — Ron Elving, NPR, 14 Sep. 2024
  • But not even Jon Hamm was impervious to the lure of the butt cut.
    — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 28 July 2017
  • The tiers are based on the square footage of impervious area on a property.
    — Grace Hurt, Arkansas Online, 9 May 2025
  • It's surrounded by a large cloud of dust and gas that's impervious to most light.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2017
  • The brand is an ocean, ebbing and flowing, impervious to the rest of the fashion world.
    — Jon Caramanica, Town & Country, 28 Feb. 2023
  • These friends seem impervious to our polite entreaties for them to, well, wake up!
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 24 June 2020
  • But loans aren’t impervious to much of the gloom weighing on markets.
    — Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2018
  • Some are impervious to the sensory stress and run their race.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 May 2018
  • The boundary was impervious on land, but murkier on water, way out in the sea.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But what does that concept mean when the powerful are impervious to truth telling?
    — Michael Bennett, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The Fed seems to have been impervious to all of that criticism.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
  • For years, decades even, that faux feline impervious to the rain was my secret excuse.
    — Domenico Starnone, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Back when Hurts was ringless yet impervious to the challenges in his path.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • There are precious few roads, and nothing is impervious to the whims of weather.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026
  • And a virus that made the leap to DNA would have been impervious to their blades.
    — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2020
  • But the Ravens’ fast starts are seemingly impervious to long odds.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Many who chose not to vote remained impervious to the ads from Caruso and all the others.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
  • Snowden said the delta variant wiped out any notion that children are impervious to the virus.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2021
  • In lieu of a sparkly crackle, the pale loaf of bread sat mute, impervious to his coaxing and squeezing.
    — Vivian Song, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • Kate isn't just impervious to the effects of alcohol, of course.
    — Marie Claire, 30 Mar. 2019
  • Some of them can be injured and then get back up, while others are impervious to any harm short of a serious head wound.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
  • James Bond serves as bodyguard to the daughter of a late friend and faces a villain who is impervious to pain.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
  • And the PlumaFill proved impervious to moisture, too.
    — Kelly Bastone, Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Intense rainfall and impervious surfaces are a recipe for urban flash floods.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026

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