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

And yet the prototypes of impregnability are themselves being treated with the kind of care one might expect for a Fabergé egg.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2018

There was a rhythm to the groundstrokes, an impregnability about the serve and an unhurried ease to his movement.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2014

Their apparent impregnability has tempted the facile penman to essay the task of harmless imitation; his success has surprised and flattered him, and the easy possibilities of forgery opened up.

From The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents by Blackburn, Douglas