impassable
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Oleshky is imprisoned by both geography and war; cut off by a river and wrecked bridges to the north – and dangerous or impassable roads inland.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Amazon plans 200 rural hubs covering 13,000 ZIP Codes across 1.2 million square miles, facing challenges like impassable roads.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
It’s tucked in an old-growth redwood tree in the backcountry of the park, in Humboldt County, where there are no roads and a creek presents an impassable barrier, Williams-Claussen said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
Rubaya sits on steep hillsides carved by deep ravines with dirt roads, often impassable during the rainy season, winding between unstable slopes.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
It was twenty miles from the bridge to Beaverville and that road could be as impassable as the road between the bridge and the campground.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
Vocabulary lists containing impassable
The Alchemist
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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