How to Use penetrable in a Sentence

penetrable

adjective
  • Key Talking Point Norwich started the half well, but the defence began to look penetrable as soon as the hosts began warmed to the task.
    SI.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • But that fortress was more easily penetrable last year as Salt Lake went just 3-4-3.
    Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
  • This may make sense for the prizes in the sciences and social sciences, since those fields are less than penetrable to anyone but fellow practitioners.
    Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
  • Clippers defense suffers In two of the three exhibition games the Clippers have lost, their defense has been too penetrable.
    Broderick Turner, latimes.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • But advantages of aluminum over heavy and frequently penetrable wooden boats were many, and the shiny metal craft caught on quickly.
    Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Here, the workspace was elevated to art, and the boundaries between student and professional, between product and process, between the child and adult worlds blurred, and were made penetrable.
    Kirstin Valdez Quade, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Anyway, that a college bubble, always penetrable, solves all is hard to embrace.
    Mike Anthony, courant.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The most concerning thing as far as Wolves fans are concerned is that their usually reliable defence looked shaky and penetrable.
    SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • In these photographs, though, borders are fragile, penetrable, thin as gauze.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2018
  • And like the Flamingo, which is not a solid mass but penetrable so pedestrians can walk through it, Calatrava’s piece will invite interaction.
    Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
  • At 35 years old and after all these years in tennis, Roger Federer has improbably improved in a way that used to seem impossible: His backhand, once pretty but penetrable, is now deadly.
    Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2017
  • But the Taliban have proven how penetrable Kabul is to them in the past week, by assassinating government spokesmen, a local official and even prison prosecutors.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • However, the common denominator among both performances was that Simeone's men conceded twice and the defence looked penetrable.
    SI.com, 21 Sep. 2019

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