impossibility

Example Sentences

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When Greg Daily found himself homeless as a teenager, becoming a successful entrepreneur seemed an impossibility.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

She could be wryly funny about the impossibility of escaping her past; in time, her exasperation with endlessly retelling the story of her childhood became an aspect of the story.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

For the Kim family, whose parents are immigrants to the United States, han is exacerbated by the pressure to assimilate alongside the impossibility of ever doing so.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

With each manicured frame and deceptively poignant observation on the impossibility of living normally in modern life, Kramer concocts an original, wonderfully empathetic study of the desire to play spectator to a world on fire.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

During a car trip to nearby Aurora, they “talked over the impossibility of our union....The reasons we both enumerated very calmly—and they seemed weighty indeed.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield