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Six example sentences with impervious, each labelled with its topic.
The tablet's case is impervious to dust and rain, so surveyors use it through storms that would ruin an ordinary laptop.
Technology
The luxury watch trade proved impervious to the downturn, with sales rising in the same quarter that everything else fell.
Economics
He is impervious to criticism in a way his colleagues envy: nothing said in a review meeting reaches him at all.
Psychology
Car parks and roofs are impervious to rain, so every storm now runs straight into the drains instead of the soil.
Environment
The rookie seemed impervious to the booing, sinking both free throws while twenty thousand people waved balloons behind the basket.
Basketball
The architect chose a sealed concrete floor, impervious to spills, for the workshop where the students mix plaster.
Architecture
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