impregnability

Example Sentences

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And the high court has repeatedly struggled to figure out what the wall looks like and when its impregnability is threatened.

From Washington Times • Jan. 2, 2020

Rome’s impregnability was itself one of the founding stories Romans told themselves; Romans had long vowed that the Celtic sack of 387 BCE would be the last, and yet the Goths had shattered that myth.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

And yet the prototypes of impregnability are themselves being treated with the kind of care one might expect for a Fabergé egg.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2018

Mourinho's successes have been built on that impregnability at home.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2015

The great rock rising above the lower town, and crowned with its batteries, all bristling with guns, seemed to my eyes the very realization of impregnability.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James