This hole is a tight right-to-left dog-leg, with it's barely penetrable entrance largely blocked by three old rectangular oil tanks. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
penetrable defenses. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A penetrable wall. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The whole of the interior is jungle penetrable for. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
To be penetrable is not, however, to be predictable. From Wordnik.com. [The First Waste LandI] Reference
Light appears to be penetrable, and matter is impenetrable. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
They therefore lie outside the range penetrable to the lungs. From Wordnik.com. [1. Technical requirements for Asbestos substitutes] Reference
The room felt as penetrable to the outside influence as if it were. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Every man's secret is penetrable, if his neighbor be sharp-sighted. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
Callum, flint to other considerations, was penetrable to superstition. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
"I am the cousin," he said with a wary grin and just-penetrable accent. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast At Tiffany's]
There was nothing vulnerable, nothing soft, nothing penetrable about him. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella At The Ball]
The moon made the night extraordinarily penetrable and showed me on the lawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Turn of the Screw] Reference
On both sides, ancient doors lay open, yawning gulfs of barely penetrable murk. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
But this fence, as all barriers, Border Patrol will tell you they are penetrable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2007] Reference
Unfortunately it is nowadays the fashion to pretend that the glass is penetrable. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
Air ... is volatile, but may be fixed, and when fixed renders all bodies penetrable. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Now, the clay is easily penetrable, and the original hole probably pierced a bed of china clay. From Wordnik.com. [The Lair of the White Worm] Reference
If it is nothing, nothing can have no quality; yet you tell me that it is penetrable and immense. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The fiber diameters typically lie between 10 pm and 20 pm and are therefore not penetrable to lungs. From Wordnik.com. [1. Technical requirements for Asbestos substitutes] Reference
The riverside bushes were certainly very thick; but the undergrowth behind was evidently penetrable. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness] Reference
Marcos, a 30-year-old from Juarez, spent two months walking the El Paso line and found some penetrable spots. From Wordnik.com. ['We Don't Even Try To Get Across Anymore.'] Reference
The Buffalo run defense is much more penetrable, which should make for shorter passing situations for Culpepper. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - NFL Preview: Week 2] Reference
Water is a highly selective absorber and is most penetrable to just those wavelengths which are useful to plants. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
The large violet-blue eyes became a little more penetrable, the lips a little warmer as they smiled almost sadly. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty's Punishment]
He felt the situation was as penetrable as a thick wall of sponge rubber backed by a ten-foot foundation of steel. From Wordnik.com. [Cubs of the Wolf] Reference
But, if penetrability is to mean identity, the theory that souls are penetrable seems to me mainly unintelligible. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference
The haze of the phoenix stone's magic was beginning to dissipate, to lose its consistency, to become more penetrable. From Wordnik.com. [Antrax]
SIEGEL: The Monteverdi madrigal sounds just out of reach, just beneath - and on the partially penetrable dark surface. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Kashkashian's Vocal Viola] Reference
One who knows the native character, so far as its mysteries are penetrable, would never attempt to get at the truth of. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
This provides in one fell swoop the greatest amount of passively-generated social control with the least-penetrable subterfuge. From Wordnik.com. [Sicko: Framing the debate] Reference
All three argue that such roots will split off the simpler emotions of "affect programs" from more "cognitively penetrable" ones. From Wordnik.com. [Emotion] Reference
The avenue of yews L-onie remembered from her first visit seemed more knotted by time and the canopy less penetrable than before. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
The world they lived in was not only beautiful to the imagination, it was also reasonable, penetrable, and governable by the intellect. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
At present, it is difficult to believe that the rays of the sun are penetrable by each other, but who knows what may happen to prove it?. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Their defensive armour, than which none can be less penetrable, is equanimity; their weapons, unstudied indifference and dignified neglect. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
An energy-field of the type surrounding the blue universe and an additional time-field which might be transparent and penetrable by itself. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Fleet]
Opinions divide as to whether the same sort of functional analysis can be applied to a wider range of what Griffiths has called the "cognitively penetrable" emotions. From Wordnik.com. [Emotion] Reference
The distinction between cognitively impenetrable and cognitively penetrable processes closely parallels Fodor's later distinction between modularized and unmodularized. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
Cognitive processes are said to be cognitively penetrable if their workings can be affected by the beliefs and goals of the person, and cognitively impenetrable if they cannot be. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
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