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

It states that “any modification must be made in accordance with the donor’s probable intention” and only if the restriction has become “unlawful, impracticable, impossible to achieve, or wasteful.”

From New York Times • May 21, 2024

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

I meant to become her governess once more, but I soon found this impracticable; my time and cares were now required by another—my husband needed them all.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë