impracticable
Example Sentences
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For many diseases, it is impossible or impracticable to collect detailed, local-level prevalence data.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
It is hard to justify now, but back then it seemed impracticable to claw back our family’s time and tranquility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
It states that “any modification must be made in accordance with the donor’s probable intention” and only if the restriction has become “unlawful, impracticable, impossible to achieve, or wasteful.”
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
Although it may seem impracticable, a renegotiation will look more appealing in the decades ahead of us, more so, I suspect, in the face of genuine hardship.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2024
The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
