impassable

Example Sentences

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“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,” the senior research strategist says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

It’s tucked in an old-growth redwood tree in the backcountry of the park, in Humboldt County, where there are no roads and a creek presents an impassable barrier, Williams-Claussen said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

She likens it to watching a burglar pile up your prized possessions on the other side of an impassable chasm.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 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

Recall that Siberia has always been cold, and that a continuous ice sheet stretched as an impassable barrier across the whole width of Canada during much of the Pleistocene Ice Ages.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond