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

Buckled and impassible roads won’t make it any easier for medical organizations, said Kirsch, who has worked extensively in disaster zones, including in Haiti after it was devastated by a 2010 earthquake.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2023

The flooding caused power outages, made many roads impassible and knocked houses off their foundations.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2022

The roads, which are rutted and difficult to travel in the best of circumstances, may have been badly damaged in the quake, and landslides from recent rains have made some impassible.

From Washington Times • Jun. 23, 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