impassable

Example Sentences

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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

The recent storms have also closed roads throughout the park, covering paved roads in debris and making them impassable, according to a National Park Service news release.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Aid workers have been trying to reach people on foot and by motorcycle, as many roads are impassable to larger vehicles.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

The government has sent three warships carrying aid and two hospital ships to some of the worst-hit areas, where many roads remain impassable.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth, one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge, but eventually comes back to where one started.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking