[ UK /pˈɛnɪtɹəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being penetrated
    penetrable defenses
    penetrable defenses
  2. admitting of penetration or passage into or through
    a penetrable wall
    penetrable defenses
    penetrable defenses
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How To Use penetrable In A Sentence

  • A tall, impenetrable wall with barbed wire and sharp metal spikes on top surrounded the entire complex.
  • You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
  • With a penetrable fourth wall, a spot of audience participation and plenty of gleeful nonsense, this is pantomime in all but dame.
  • I find his style somewhat impenetrable.
  • From alcohol they progress (oh so slowly) to opium, thence to heroin, allowing their language to get boozily baroque and even less penetrable.
  • But I suppose it was too much to expect for him to have a black, twirly moustache and for her to cackle mysteriously from beneath an impenetrable black shroud.
  • Beyond it, the Cumbrian mountains rear, an impenetrable barrier.
  • A horrible something, as penetrable as mist, as keen as the sting of conscience, as inevitable as the burden of life, seemed to inwrap him. A Tar-Heel Baron
  • Her priority is to maintain an impenetrable veneer of normalcy, of successful, aspirational living while he longs to wake up from the monotony of his existence and start living again.
  • impenetrable gloom
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