impregnability

Example Sentences

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And the high court has repeatedly struggled to figure out what the wall looks like and when its impregnability is threatened.

From Washington Times • Jan. 2, 2020

Rome’s impregnability was itself one of the founding stories Romans told themselves; Romans had long vowed that the Celtic sack of 387 BCE would be the last, and yet the Goths had shattered that myth.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

The club captaincy, a first title and a season of defensive impregnability followed.

From The Guardian • May 16, 2017

Mourinho's successes have been built on that impregnability at home.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2015

Then he turned to take a leisurely survey of the massive proportions of the castle, and, with a veteran soldier's instincts, fell to a planning of additional fortifications, so as to increase its impregnability.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John