How to Use semipermeable in a Sentence

semipermeable

adjective
  • Nowhere seems to drift through this as through a semipermeable membrane.
    — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The science behind this is based on the fact that eggshells are semipermeable, which means air can get through.
    — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 10 June 2026
  • At Fukuoka, electricity is produced from the salinity gradient between two streams placed on either side of a semipermeable membrane.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025
  • For consumers, the best choice is a reverse osmosis system, which forces water through a semipermeable membrane that captures up to 99% of contaminants, Jones said.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The electrochemical process separates out lithium by passing it through three compartments separated by semipermeable barriers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Engineering electricity from salinity gradients PRO systems work through osmosis, the process by which water molecules move from an area of low salt concentration to a high concentration across a semipermeable membrane.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The presence of a semipermeable faunal boundary in the North Atlantic Current was suggested by the absence, below the 47th parallel, of knobless Botrynema brucei ellinorae jellyfish.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025

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