How to Use porosity in a Sentence

porosity

noun
  • James agrees that the choice comes down to hair goals and porosity.
    — Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 1 Sep. 2025
  • High porosity strands tend to grab moisture, but may not hold on to it for long.
    — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 24 June 2024
  • Not sure what your porosity level is?
    — Zoë Weiner, Glamour, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Not sure what your porosity level is?
    — Grace McCarty, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2025
  • There are a few easy ways to determine the porosity of your hair.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • This hair mask can penetrate even dense hair with low porosity.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • Hair porosity refers to how well your hair can absorb and retain moisture.
    — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 24 June 2024
  • If your teeth have a higher porosity, this will lead to more persistent stains.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 22 Mar. 2021
  • To find whether your hair has high or low porosity, take notice of the way in which your hair absorbs products.
    — Marielle Marlys, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2022
  • Another aspect to keep in mind is your hair’s porosity.
    — Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Frizz can be a factor depending on the porosity.
    — Talia Gutierrez, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Gaines said stylists are also trained to consult with customers on curl type, pattern, porosity and more.
    — Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • This is particularly great for coily, curly, wavy, and low porosity hair types.
    — Jamie Wilson, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Whether Anduril will maintain that porosity remains to be seen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Filling in the depression with mulch doesn’t change the way the water moves; the fill should be a low-porosity soil, such as clay.
    — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2020
  • It is made for natural hair with low porosity that struggles to absorb moisture.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • That said, each case looks a little different depending on your hair type and porosity.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 20 Dec. 2022
  • But people with low porosity hair will need a bit more of a potent formula to reap the benefits of a hair oil.
    — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2023
  • A couple of factors that affect the length of time a gloss lasts are the porosity of the hair and the level of deposit of the gloss.
    — Dori Price, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2022
  • This is a medium-weight option that allows for air porosity and good drainage, which all add up to creating those strong roots.
    — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2022
  • This is a medium-weight option that allows for air porosity and good drainage, which all add up to creating those strong roots.
    — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2022
  • There’s a lot of porosity between these communities where my parents come from.
    — Literary Hub, 29 May 2025
  • Casting porosity refers to small bubbles in castings like engine blocks and pistons.
    — Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Understanding hair porosity is the key to choosing the best products that work with your unique hair type and texture.
    — Daisy Maldonado, Allure, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Some of the amine groups hang out solo, while others link with each other to help create the porosity within the solid.
    — ArsTechnica, 8 June 2026
  • This works by decreasing the porosity of the strands, thereby reducing the amount of breakage in hair.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • The porosity of your hair also influences how your hair will respond to certain products.
    — Janell Hickman-Kirby, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But if anything, the overriding quality of our era is porosity.
    — Longreads, 14 June 2017
  • In addition, the amount of water that seeps out of the hose will depend on the porosity of the material.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023
  • For example, porosity, or the measure of a coffee ground’s void spaces, grows due to longer grinding times.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 11 Dec. 2024

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