impassible
Example Sentences
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On the negative side, extreme reactions provoked by these failures of anticipation can take the form of the panicked collapse of the French army in 1940, when its collective model held the Ardennes to be impassible, only to be met with the prediction error of Blitzkrieg.
Key roads remain impassible, preventing Haitians like 52-year-old Nadine Prosper from reaching one of the few operating hospitals.
From Seattle Times
“Travel is highly discouraged,” weather officials said, warning that mountain roads across the Sierra will be dangerous and potentially impassible: snow-covered, slippery and with possible downed branches from high winds.
From Los Angeles Times
The Florida Keys, a low-lying chain of islands south of Miami, has estimated that nearly half the roads in the county will be at least occasionally impassible in fewer than 25 years under moderate estimates of ocean increases.
From National Geographic
They avoided the festival ground’s central “city,” which had become almost impassible with mud, and walked out along the open desert, with no clear sense of what might await them when they reached the paved road miles away, or whether they might become stranded en route.
From Los Angeles Times
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