How to Use impassible in a Sentence

impassible

adjective

• The road from Freeport to the cays to reach survivors was impassible.
  — Dan Sweeney, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• The storm that blew through the area Tuesday made roads impassible, washed out bridges and swamped homes and businesses.
  — NBC News, 19 Aug. 2021
• In Naples, there were downed trees everywhere, and some of the streets were flooded and impassible.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2017
• Along the Fayette-Kanawha county line, several feet of mud made roads impassible in the Smithers area.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022
• Many of those roads and highways were closed or impassible.
  — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023
• And a few stretches are impassible at high tide—bring a tide table.
  — Outside Online, 3 Nov. 2020
• By winter, the pipe will be impassible, awash in as much as 12 feet of sewer water.
  — Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
• And roads in many towns were impassible and some schools canceled classes on Wednesday due to the damage.
  — NBC News, 16 May 2018
• On Saturday, my plans to join a supply run from the east-side kitchen to these tree dwellers are delayed when heavy rain makes the creek impassible.
  — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2022
• Roads in many towns were impassible and some schools canceled classes on Wednesday due to the damage.
  — CBS News, 16 May 2018
• More than half of the island doesn't have clean water, and roads in many areas remain impassible.
  — USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2017
• Winter roads that run east to Ontario are impassible after the spring thaw.
  — Ian Austen, New York Times, 28 July 2019
• The storm then moved up Highway 1 — the only road to the mainland, and the ribbon of asphalt through low-lying swamps remains impassible.
  — Jay Reeves, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2021
• The island has no services, and its one road and bridge are frequently impassible due to flooding.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• The storm complex, blasting eastward at over 60 mph, toppled so many trees that roads were impassible all over the region.
  — Jim Duncan, Washington Post, 29 June 2012
• During high water levels, there are two low bridges over the river that will be impassible.
  — John Pana, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2021
• On almost every block, the truck paused for obstacles — a telephone pole, sharp corner, a tree — that appeared impassible for the 32-foot-wide house.
  — Katy Read, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
• Communications systems were down and many roads were impassible in the first weeks after the storm.
  — Sam Petulla, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018
• They were all frozen still in this dim room, hardly lit for all of the silhouettes and shadows cast by the menagerie and the shelves they had been collected on, almost impassible but for a couple of paths.
  — Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Some of the worst damage occurred in small towns, where buildings were leveled and roads rendered impassible by rubble.
  — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
• But traffic still could be difficult in the Denver area by Tuesday morning, with closed or impassible roads in cities to the north of Denver and on the plains along and north of Interstate 76.
  — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
• Many of our existing commercial state highways (like the Nome to Teller road) are not maintained and impassible more than six months each year.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 31 July 2017
• The roads, which are rutted and difficult to travel in the best of circumstances, may have been badly damaged in the quake, and landslides from recent rains have made some impassible.
  — Ebrahim Noroozi, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
• In Grovemont, east of Asheville, residents were told to shelter in place instead as roads had become impassible.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
• With all the rain that remains out there this morning, there will be widespread ponding of water on roadways, and some roadways could become impassible.
  — al, 2 Jan. 2023
• Months later, the beaches remained practically impassible, clogged with logs and branches and wood chips and ash.
  — azcentral, 15 May 2018
• Crews on Friday continued to clear highways made impassible by the storm, and schools postponed classes due to a lack of electricity.
  — Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2020
• This destination is located about 30 miles from the highway, reached via routes that can quickly become impassible in inclement weather, are rough even at the best of times, and lack much in the way of signage.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2021
• Parts of Broward and Palm Beach County could see winds as strong as 110 mph that could damage roofs and mobile homes, uproot trees, leave some roads or bridges impassible and cause a wide area of power outages, the weather service said.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
• Although some streets remained virtually impassible, most other roads were well-packed and mostly dry.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024