impossibility

Example Sentences

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She could be wryly funny about the impossibility of escaping her past; in time, her exasperation with endlessly retelling the story of her childhood became an aspect of the story.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

His father Joel told BBC Sport last year that Louis finds the impossibility of satisfying all the requests for selfies and autographs he gets a difficult part of the job.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

That is a physical impossibility, given the shortage of nearly half a million factory workers in the U.S.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

It also feels like this enormous amount of pressure and impossibility, and that you’re in a David and Goliath struggle.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

For her to attempt to bring them out when she was a fugitive herself would be an impossibility.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry