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How to use impracticable in a sentence

So part of the reason ice cream was so coveted is that, like vanilla, it was scarce and impracticable.

I looked over the terrace; it was far too high to leap from; escape, if there was danger, was impracticable.

It has usually been considered impracticable to combine any powers of compulsion with a Poor Law system.

Then he conclusively proves the first impracticable and the second inexpedient.

He was crotchetty and impracticable, a man of rash judgment and hasty action-as brave and as tenacious as a bulldog.

Suffice it to say, the bordeaux was very respectable; but the beefsteak impracticable, and the poulette questionable.

Metaphysical subtlety, in pursuit of an impracticable theory, could alone have devised one that is calculated to destroy it.

Fox described the war as unjust and impracticable, and said that the bill exhibited the folly of the ministers.

The ground on either side was quite impracticable, and the detachment must necessarily pass through the wood.

Why should not a doctrine seem impracticable, when we have suppressed its fundamental proposition?

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985