How to Use impassable in a Sentence

impassable

adjective

• The roads were made impassable by the flood.
• Some roads in the area were still impassable due to snow depth, the agency said.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023
• Roads in and leading to the park can be snowy, icy or impassable.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
• The roads were impassable, the air thick with smoke, and no one had cell phone service.
  — Jason Hanna, CNN, 9 Sep. 2020
• But the road that went to my childhood home in Asheville is impassable.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2024
• The island is close to the size of France, and in the rainy season the bush roads turn into impassable rivers of mud.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2019
• But the stream is largely dried up this year and proved impassable.
  — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
• They were scattered from the air to make trails impassable.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• Some roads are still wet and torn half apart, some impassable.
  — Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2022
• The road is impassable now from Delta to Wilmer, police said.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2021
• By the next day, Honor was still struggling — and the roads were impassable.
  — Heather Hollingsworth, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
• With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
• The molten rock could make the road impassable and force drivers to find alternate coastal routes in the north and south.
  — Audrey McAvoy, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
• World Bank has worked with them on that in terms of roads and railroads, but, of course, now many of those are impassable.
  — Julia Chatterley, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
• In some areas of the state, roads are still impassable due to flooding or snow.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2023
• In Wyoming, roads across much of the southern part of the state were impassable, state officials said.
  — Jim Salter, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
• The gate to Spinney Mountain Access Road is closed, and the road is impassable.
  — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• Was the path ahead impassable on wheels, so infants had to be carried?
  — Peter Maass, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2022
• Roads controlled by gangs are now impassable and those that dare risk their lives.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• The extensive damage has made many of the the trails impassable and the campgrounds unsafe.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 26 Aug. 2024
• Finding a sea of ice at the mouth of the Deh Cho, the young explorer declared the route impassable and the mission a failure.
  — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
• Waters that reached up to 20 feet deep made the exit road impassable.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• Aside from the highways, the rest of the roads are dirt, which require a four-wheel drive and can become impassable after a hard rain.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 7 May 2022
• In the fall of 2019, the area around La Ventana was deluged with rain, which made the desert lush and green but also left roads impassable in some places.
  — Stephanie Pearson, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2020
• Heavy rainfall last week made the roads leading to her home impassable.
  — Juan A. Lozano, Chron, 31 May 2021
• Most of it is impassable scrub but the coastline is beautiful and the birds are unafraid.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 3 Mar. 2021
• Some of those roads, homes, and business districts crossed what had once been impassable, swampy muskeg.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
• Drains are likely clogged, which could add to flooding and make more roads impassable.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
• Streets were impassable and mayors on the island urged people to stay home.
  — Colleen Barry, ajc, 26 Nov. 2022
• The next two-mile stretch from Sturtevant Camp northeast to Newcomb Pass remains impassable.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024