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UK
/pˈɛnɪtɹəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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capable of being penetrated
penetrable defenses
penetrable defenses -
admitting of penetration or passage into or through
a penetrable wall
penetrable defenses
penetrable defenses
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