How to Use impervious in a Sentence

impervious

adjective
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  • But not even Jon Hamm was impervious to the lure of the butt cut.
    — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 28 July 2017
  • And a virus that made the leap to DNA would have been impervious to their blades.
    — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Both of these sets are impervious to the first four actions of the thief.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2019
  • None of us are impervious to change, and in many ways, that’s a good thing.
    — Ariel Cheung, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2022
  • The brand is an ocean, ebbing and flowing, impervious to the rest of the fashion world.
    — Jon Caramanica, Town & Country, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Oh, to be not like the swimmer, but like that lake: deep and impervious and with room for us all.
    — Lauren Markham, Longreads, 7 June 2018
  • Staffers on the line seemed a bit brusque and impervious to eye contact.
    — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Don't believe that a dog's pads are impervious to the heat.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Here’s the good news: Trump voters do not, in fact, seem impervious to truth.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 5 July 2017
  • And there are very few things in life that are impervious to time’s erosion.
    — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The Fed seems to have been impervious to all of that criticism.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The polls have had Mr. Biden leading for the past 12 months, almost impervious to events.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Many who chose not to vote remained impervious to the ads from Caruso and all the others.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
  • All around the Warriors are the fruits and roots of their winning culture—the work, the attitude, the impervious chill.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 3 July 2018
  • 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
  • But loans aren’t impervious to much of the gloom weighing on markets.
    — Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 11 Dec. 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
  • Some are impervious to the sensory stress and run their race.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 May 2018
  • Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
    — Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • As with all things that go up like a rocket, crypto wasn’t impervious to an IRL crash.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Thus far, Manchin has shown himself to be impervious to pressure from the White House, if not prickly about it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The one realm of American life that has shown itself impervious to Trump’s assault on truth is the courts.
    — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • These friends seem impervious to our polite entreaties for them to, well, wake up!
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 24 June 2020
  • But the Ravens’ fast starts are seemingly impervious to long odds.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Because of that, the show is seemingly impervious to new cast members that don’t come in through dating one of the main cast.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 May 2024
  • But the Fountain has not been impervious to the storm of post-pandemic challenges.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • That first rose, like those that followed, is impervious to bugs and black spot, blooms from last to first frost, is winter hardy and is self-cleaning.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The road project itself would mean more stormwater runoff because of additional impervious surfaces, but Wayne said the tunnel project is expected to reduce the stormwater discharge to the combined sewage system by 82%.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Chief among its design is its challenging AI that seems impervious to previous game exploits like charging your chi from a safe distance and cheesing damage by unleashing raw supers.
    — Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024

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