impassable

Example Sentences

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Amazon plans 200 rural hubs covering 13,000 ZIP Codes across 1.2 million square miles, facing challenges like impassable roads.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

"The longer the Strait is impassable, the tighter commodity supply will become, thus the higher prices will likely go, and the greater the inflationary impulse that will follow."

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

Hundreds of schools have been closed, many roads were impassable, and some people in rural areas have been snowed in for more than a week.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

The recent storms have also closed roads throughout the park, covering paved roads in debris and making them impassable, according to a National Park Service news release.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

For three days, Yakima was paralyzed and cut off from the world, its airport closed, its approach roads impassable.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson