impassable
Example Sentences
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In some of the latest developments, Saudi Arabia closed its East-West pipeline — which had been used to bypass the largely impassable Strait of Hormuz — after drone attacks on the facility.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Yoshitaka Isaji said the passage used in rescue efforts on Saturday was currently impassable because a drainage pump had broken, but repair efforts were ongoing.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
Marcella Anglada, 61, pulled out her phone and showed Pratt a video of nearby broken sidewalks that she said were impassable in her motorized wheelchair.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
“The longer the strait is impassable, the tighter commodity supply will become, thus the higher prices will likely go, and the greater the inflationary impulse that will follow,” the senior research strategist says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
That’s when the roads became treacherous and often impassable with snow and ice.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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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