Example Sentences

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He spends hours standing around with his band, talking in his unpenetrable, oracular mode.

From Time Magazine Archive

Between these two, at least on the side of the hard unpenetrable incarnation of self-inclusion and self-pleasing, any approach to harmony or sympathy is p. 92impossible. 

From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by Brown, John Crombie

They had no mountain passes to defend like the Maroons of Jamaica,—no unpenetrable swamps, like the Maroons of Surinam.

From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Knee-length and paper-thin, they were nonetheless unpenetrable even if the boys should step on one of the needle-sharp ground thorns.

From The Revolt on Venus by Glanzman, Louis

But the same unpenetrable something beyond which no one could see was always on his face when Jo talked of Leigh.

From Winning the Wilderness by Marchand, J. N.