How to Use penetrable in a Sentence

penetrable

adjective
  • The wall between the two has long been viewed as performative and penetrable.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
  • Strong actors also can’t prop up a script built out of barely penetrable mumbo jumbo.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In these photographs, though, borders are fragile, penetrable, thin as gauze.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Anyway, that a college bubble, always penetrable, solves all is hard to embrace.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • And then there are steel ceilings, ones that are not penetrable, no matter what skills, education or work ethic a person brings.
    — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In the students’ presence, the tunnel of my concentration grew longer and less penetrable.
    — Time, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But that fortress was more easily penetrable last year as Salt Lake went just 3-4-3.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
  • But advantages of aluminum over heavy and frequently penetrable wooden boats were many, and the shiny metal craft caught on quickly.
    — Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • This may make sense for the prizes in the sciences and social sciences, since those fields are less than penetrable to anyone but fellow practitioners.
    — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
  • The most concerning thing as far as Wolves fans are concerned is that their usually reliable defence looked shaky and penetrable.
    — SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Key Talking Point Norwich started the half well, but the defence began to look penetrable as soon as the hosts began warmed to the task.
    — SI.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Clippers defense suffers In two of the three exhibition games the Clippers have lost, their defense has been too penetrable.
    — Broderick Turner, latimes.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Here, the workspace was elevated to art, and the boundaries between student and professional, between product and process, between the child and adult worlds blurred, and were made penetrable.
    — Kirstin Valdez Quade, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
  • And like the Flamingo, which is not a solid mass but penetrable so pedestrians can walk through it, Calatrava’s piece will invite interaction.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
  • However, the common denominator among both performances was that Simeone's men conceded twice and the defence looked penetrable.
    — SI.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • But the Taliban have proven how penetrable Kabul is to them in the past week, by assassinating government spokesmen, a local official and even prison prosecutors.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • But the Taliban have proven how penetrable Kabul is to them in the past week, by assassinating government spokesmen, a local official and even prison prosecutors.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Bouncing back seven years after the barely penetrable Sunset, the Hungarian director’s new film takes its time to kick in but is a uniquely personal coming-of-age drama.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025

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