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Example sentences for "pervious"

Lexicographically close words:
perverters; perverteth; perverting; perverts; pervided; peryll; pesant; pesar; pescado; pesce
  1. Beyond the seat of the ligature the artery had a rough, ragged appearance, and was sufficiently pervious to admit of the ready passage of a small probe into the aneurismal sac.

  2. The opening scarcely requires to be kept pervious by the use of bougies, the functions of the parts being sufficient for the establishment of the anus.

  3. Many and various modes have been pursued with a view of securing a pervious state of the nasal duct.

  4. The opening may be kept pervious by the introduction of a conical probe from time to time.

  5. Thus, if the serous spermatic tube close only at the top of the testicle, the bowel which traverses the open internal inguinal ring and pervious tube will not enter the tunica vaginalis.

  6. The third and second arches remain pervious on both sides, afterwards to become the right and left brachio-cephalic arteries.

  7. If the fifth arch of the right side remained pervious opposite the open ductus arteriosus, both vessels would present a similar arrangement, as two symmetrical ducti arteriosi co-existing with symmetrical aortic arches.

  8. It is distinguished from Craterellus sinuosus by its pervious stem, while very similar in color to Cantharellus cinereus.

  9. This change consists in a beginning fusion which tends to unite the particles of clay more closely, thus rendering it less pervious or spongy.

  10. Besides its seepage through the pores of pervious rocks, water passes to lower levels through the joints and cracks by which all rocks, near the surface are broken.

  11. Would you expect to find ancient beds of rock salt inclosed in beds of pervious sandstone?

  12. The =deep zones of flow= occupy any pervious rocks which may be found below the impervious layer which lies nearest to the surface.

  13. These pervious sands, interbedded with the lava, become the aquifers of artesian wells.

  14. The deeper zones of flow lie in pervious strata which are overlain by some impervious stratum.

  15. Pervious rocks, on the other hand, such as many sandstones, have pore spaces so large that water filters through them more or less freely.

  16. Thus the olefiant gas, so light and clear and pervious to luminous rays, was proved to be a most potent destroyer of the rays emanating from an obscure source.

  17. The transparent bisulphide, which is highly pervious to invisible heat, exercises on it the same absorption as the perfectly opaque solution.

  18. The first care is to ascertain whether the urethra is pervious by passing a human catheter.

  19. From Craterellus sinuosus it is separated by its pervious stem, and from C.

  20. The canal is not pervious during the early months of foetal life, the abdominal extremity being closed and rounded; this appears to open about the fourth month.

  21. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.

  22. Defn: Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.

  23. Defn: Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.

  24. God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.

  25. It seems as if the more pervious tissue tracts having been destroyed by the section, the less pervious ones, though still able to convey the contraction-wave, are not able to convey it so rapidly as were the more pervious tracts.

  26. Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.

  27. Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.

  28. That it was able to play this double role arose from its being on the one hand pervious to light, while yet possessing a certain substantial density.

  29. Exposed to heat, however, physical substance loses this feature to the extent that at the border of its ponderability all matter becomes pervious to light.

  30. Partly for these reasons, and partly because its electric character makes it especially capable of being rendered at will pervious or impervious to the apergic current, I resolved to make the outer and inner walls of an alloy of .

  31. The inner surface of the windows was somewhat colder, showing that the crystal was more pervious to heat than the walls, with their greater thickness, their outer and inner lining of metal, and massive interior of concrete.

  32. Portions of this lung were pervious to air and emphysematous, but the greater part was disorganized, and contained carbonaceous matter in a solid and fluid state.

  33. The parenchymatous substance was found ragged and unrespirable, and many large blood-vessels crossing from either side of the cavity, pervious to blood.

  34. A small portion of the upper lobe was pervious to air.

  35. An artery having been exposed, is opened longitudinally, and a reed or other pervious tube is inserted into the vessel through the opening, by which the blood is prevented from being lost, and the wound is closed.

  36. The dotted lines are the water levels within the pervious layers (after Chamberlin).

  37. A monoclinal structure may furnish artesian conditions when the generally pervious layer has become clogged at a low level so as to hold back the water (Fig.

  38. They are generally sunk in valley plains and districts where the lower pervious strata are bent into basin-shaped curves.

  39. I came neither in a ship through the waves, nor on foot by land; the pervious sky made a way for me.

  40. What we pray is that your Grace, in mercy and humanity, will substitute for those penal walls some pervious palisades through which children may behold the refreshing paradise of Nature, though they may never enter therein.

  41. The writer ended by expressing the hope that if the Archbishop could not open the grounds he might substitute "pervious palisades" for the stone walls impervious to the curious and wistful eyes of children.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pervious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accessible; amenable; approachable; attainable; available; excretory; impressionable; malleable; movable; obtainable; open; penetrable; pervious; plastic; pliable; pliant; porous; receptive; responsive; runny; suggestible; susceptible; weak; weepy