How to Use impervious in a Sentence

impervious

adjective
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  • 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
  • And there are very few things in life that are impervious to time’s erosion.
    — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Many who chose not to vote remained impervious to the ads from Caruso and all the others.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
  • The boundary was impervious on land, but murkier on water, way out in the sea.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Snowden said the delta variant wiped out any notion that children are impervious to the virus.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The British monarchy is one of the most impervious institutions of the modern world.
    — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Some of them can be injured and then get back up, while others are impervious to any harm short of a serious head wound.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
  • And with good reason—her shiny waves are impervious to the elements and always ready for a photo opp.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2022
  • There was the continuous risk of variants that could be more impervious to the vaccine.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • In part, it's based on the fact that there's very few people who are immune-naive, so people feel rightly more impervious to a bad outcome.
    — CBS News, 17 July 2022
  • Most soft shell rooftop tents also come with a cover that’s more impervious to the elements when it’s packed down for transport.
    — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023
  • His immune system was impervious to anthrax and the plague.
    — Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Pet-proof fabrics should be durable, stain-resistant, and impervious to claw marks.
    — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Djikine wasn’t impervious to the belief that the foods of his childhood would fail to attract Parisian diners of European descent.
    — Vivian Song, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Those areas are packed with more concrete, buildings and other impervious surfaces than the rest of the city and fewer trees and greenspaces that can help absorb runoff.
    — Drew Kann, ajc, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Those areas are packed with more concrete, buildings and other impervious surfaces than the rest of the city and have fewer trees and greenspaces that can help absorb runoff.
    — Drew Kann, ajc, 15 Sep. 2023
  • That would greatly decrease the amount of impervious surface and reduce the number of drivers being placed in harm’s way.
    — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Despite headlines of layoffs in tech and finance, the job market has been so far impervious to the Fed’s tightening.
    — Christine Romans, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The Bay Area’s sky-high home prices, however, have remained seemingly impervious to the changes.
    — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2022
  • Meanwhile, the 15-year-old freshman quarterback and son of the head coach, Brady Smigiel, acted impervious to the dispute, huddling with teammates to prepare for the next play.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2022
  • But, thankfully, the Daily Shouts and Shouts & Murmurs stores are impervious to supply-chain woes and never ran bare.
    — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The figurative sense of clichés and stereotypes arose later because these plates were often reused and were impervious to change.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2022
  • For most of the year, adult magnolia scale insects lie still and flat against the tree’s trunk, protected by a hard shell and a waxy coating, impervious to insecticides.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023

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