Example sentences for: porous

How can you use “porous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Seasonal migration and sexual trafficking across a porous Indian border [4], fuelled by a bloody Maoist conflict (see Sidebar), has raised Nepal's HIV prevalence to the second highest in the region after India.

  • Here, as elsewhere, Reedus is remarkable, his face both masklike and porous, so that you never consciously register the ways in which Harry is dissolving before your eyes--but you're not in the least surprised when he does.

  • The porous volcanic particles that make up the topsoil are useless in themselves but act as a sponge for the moisture of the night air, obtaining water for the plants and eliminating the need for rain.

  • TY particles are naturally porous and do not require permeabilization for access of substrate.

  • Dole's campaign has been especially "porous," with aides emulating the proverbial seafaring rats.


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