impassible
Example Sentences
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Key roads remain impassible, preventing Haitians like 52-year-old Nadine Prosper from reaching one of the few operating hospitals.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024
Flash flooding was reported in New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury and other Connecticut towns, leaving many roads impassible.
From Washington Times • Jul. 16, 2023
Buckled and impassible roads won’t make it any easier for medical organizations, said Kirsch, who has worked extensively in disaster zones, including in Haiti after it was devastated by a 2010 earthquake.
From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2023
That said, the Orlando neighborhood of Rio Pinar Estates had become a giant, impassible lake as the mayor briefed the public, and some 200,000 residents were without electricity.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022
He was first subject to suffering and death—afterwards impassible and immortal, Rom. vi.
From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Cornwallis, Caroline Frances
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