impracticable
Example Sentences
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It is hard to justify now, but back then it seemed impracticable to claw back our family’s time and tranquility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a stickler for legible rules, sounded borderline aghast at this baggy, boundless standard; she lobbed a series of hypotheticals at Aguiñaga that showed he was pushing a meaningless and impracticable test.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2024
"It may be impracticable that our distinctively American experiment of individual freedom should go on."
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023
Critics say her idea of redeploying the ships to block departures is against the law and impracticable.
From Reuters ● Sep. 19, 2023
The logic was appealing, but unfortunately no one knew how much salt was in the sea or by how much it increased each year, which rendered the experiment impracticable.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
