impassible

Example Sentences

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“Travel is highly discouraged,” weather officials said, warning that mountain roads across the Sierra will be dangerous and potentially impassible: snow-covered, slippery and with possible downed branches from high winds.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2024

And Category 4 menaces like Ian can break power grids, flatten homes and leave many roads impassible, isolating people when they most need help.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2022

That said, the Orlando neighborhood of Rio Pinar Estates had become a giant, impassible lake as the mayor briefed the public, and some 200,000 residents were without electricity.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022

The storm complex, blasting eastward at over 60 mph, toppled so many trees that roads were impassible all over the region.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2022

And all this time Minnette sat in her own room, alone, wrapped in her own gloomy thoughts as in a mantle—the same cold, impassible Minnette as ever.

From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes