impassible
Example Sentences
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“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 ● Mar. 22, 2024
Flash flooding was reported in New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury and other Connecticut towns, leaving many roads impassible.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
And Category 4 menaces like Ian can break power grids, flatten homes and leave many roads impassible, isolating people when they most need help.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
The storm complex, blasting eastward at over 60 mph, toppled so many trees that roads were impassible all over the region.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022
And when Jules Favre concluded, implacable, impassible, only foaming a little at the mouth: "France will not be lowered to the bloody level of the wretches who oppress the capital," the whole Assembly rose raving.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
